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Under the Volcano

One cannot live without love.

1984 · R · 1h 52m

Directed by John Huston

6.6

TMDB audience score
108 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Albert Finney
    Geoffrey Firmin

  • Jacqueline Bisset
    Yvonne Firmin

  • Anthony Andrews
    Hugh Firmin

  • Ignacio López Tarso
    Dr. Vigil

  • Katy Jurado
    Senora Gregoria

  • James Villiers
    Brit

  • Dawson Bray
    Quincey

  • Carlos Riquelme
    Bustamante

  • Jim McCarthy
    Gringo

  • José René Ruiz
    Dwarf

  • Eleazar García Jr.
    Chief of Gardens

  • Salvador Sánchez
    Chief of Stockyards

  • Sergio Calderón
    Chief of Municipality

  • Araceli Ladewuen Castelun
    Maria

  • Emilio Fernández
    Diosdado

  • Arturo Sarabia
    Cervantes

  • Roberto Sosa
    Few Fleas

  • Hugo Stiglitz
    Sinarquista