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Under the Volcano (1984)
Directed by John Huston
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Overview
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.
Rated R | Length 112 minutes
Actors
Albert Finney | Jacqueline Bisset | Anthony Andrews | Ignacio López Tarso | Katy Jurado | James Villiers | Dawson Bray | Carlos Riquelme | Jim McCarthy | José René Ruiz | Eleazar García Jr. | Salvador Sánchez | Sergio Calderón | Araceli Ladewuen Castelun | Emilio Fernández | Arturo Sarabia | Roberto Sosa | Hugo Stiglitz | Ugo Moctezuma | Isabel Vázquez | Gustavo Fernandez | Irene Díaz de Dávila | Alberto Olvera | Eduardo Borbolla | Alejandro Suárez | Rodolfo De Alexandre | Juan Ángel Martínez | Martín Palomares Carrión | Mário Arévalo | Ramiro Ramírez | Günter Meisner | Alfonso Castro Valle