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Under the Volcano( 1984)

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One cannot live without love.

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Albert Finney

      Geoffrey Firmin

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      Jacqueline Bisset

      Yvonne Firmin

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      Anthony Andrews

      Hugh Firmin

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      Ignacio López Tarso

      Dr. Vigil

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      Katy Jurado

      Senora Gregoria

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      James Villiers

      Brit

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      Dawson Bray

      Quincey

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      Carlos Riquelme

      Bustamante

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      Jim McCarthy

      Gringo

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      José René Ruiz

      Dwarf

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      Eleazar García Jr.

      Chief of Gardens

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      Salvador Sánchez

      Chief of Stockyards

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      Sergio Calderón

      Chief of Municipality

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      Araceli Ladewuen Castelun

      Maria

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      Emilio Fernández

      Diosdado

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      Arturo Sarabia

      Cervantes

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      Roberto Sosa

      Few Fleas

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      Hugo Stiglitz

      Sinarquista

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      Ugo Moctezuma

      Latin Consul

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      Isabel Vázquez

      Chicken Lady

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      Gustavo Fernandez

      Transvestite

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      Irene Díaz de Dávila

      Concepta

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      Alberto Olvera

      Matador

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      Eduardo Borbolla

      Don Juan Tenorio

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      Alejandro Suárez

      Doña Ines

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      Rodolfo De Alexandre

      Bus Driver

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      Juan Ángel Martínez

      Passenger

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      Martín Palomares Carrión

      Dead Indian

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      Mario Arévalo

      Horseman

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      Ramiro Ramírez

      Second Horseman

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      Günter Meisner

      Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)

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      Alfonso Castro Valle

      (uncredited)

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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    Keywords

    • depression
    • mexico
    • husband wife relationship
    • bullfighting
    • based on novel or book
    • fascism
    • half-brother
    • alcoholism
    • alcoholic
    • drunk
    • cuckold
    • consul
    • day of the dead
    • 1930s
    • foreign diplomat