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(Principio y fin)

Name: The Beginning and the End | Principio y fin 1994
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Released: 1994-06-24
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Julieta Egurrola, Ernesto Laguardia, Bruno Bichir, Lucía Muñoz, Alberto Estrella

Year: 1994

Runtime: 187 minutes

7.7 / 10

(19 Vote count)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Mexico

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

187 minutes

Year:

1994

Directors:

Arturo Ripstein

Production companies:

Alameda Films,