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Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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- Bleak ending
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- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Albert FinneyGeoffrey Firmin
- Jacqueline BissetYvonne Firmin
- Anthony AndrewsHugh Firmin
- Ignacio López TarsoDr. Vigil
- Katy JuradoSenora Gregoria
- James VilliersBrit
- Dawson BrayQuincey
- Carlos RiquelmeBustamante
- Jim McCarthyGringo
- José René RuizDwarf
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- John HustonDirector
- Guy GalloScreenplay
- Malcolm LowryNovel
- Gabriel FigueroaDirector of Photography
- Alex NorthOriginal Music Composer
- Roberto SilviEditor
- Moritz BormanProducer
- Wieland Schulz-KeilProducer
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