Movielogr
The Beginning and the End (1994)
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Overview
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Length 187 minutes
Actors
Ernesto Laguardia | Julieta Egurrola | Blanca Guerra | Lucía Muñoz | Verónica Merchant | Bruno Bichir | Alberto Estrella | Alonso Echánove | Luis Felipe Tovar | Julián Pastor | Luisa Huertas | Jorge Fegán | Ernesto Yáñez | Alejandro Parodi | Dario T. Pie | Luis Rábago | Graciela Bernardos