Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

Released on
Drama
Runtime
112 mins
(90 votes)

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.

Cast

  • 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
  • Mario Arévalo
  • Ramiro Ramírez
  • Günter Meisner
  • Alfonso Castro Valle

Director

  • John Huston

Producers

  • Wieland Schulz-Keil
  • Moritz Borman

Screenwriter

  • Guy Gallo

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