Under the Volcano
- Released on
- Runtime
- 112 mins
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.
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