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
Julieta Egurrola | Ernesto Laguardia | Bruno Bichir | Lucía Muñoz | Alberto Estrella | Verónica Merchant | Luis Felipe Tovar | Blanca Guerra | Luisa Huertas | Julián Pastor | Ernesto Yáñez | Alonso Echánove | Alejandro Parodi | Dario T. Pie | Luis Rábago | Graciela Bernardos | Jorge Fegán | Alejandra Montoya | Osami Kawano | Roberto Antunez | Dolores Beristáin | Alexandra Vicencio | Abel Woolrich | Gastón Melo | Loló Navarro