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The Beginning and the End (1994)

The Beginning and the End (1994)

Drama

Arturo Ripstein's Masterpiece

Release Date: 1994, June 24
Directors: Arturo Ripstein
Countries: Mexico
Production: Alameda Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Cast: Abel Woolrich, Ernesto Laguardia, Bruno Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Luisa Huertas, Blanca Guerra, Loló Navarro, Julián Pastor, Julieta Egurrola, Luis Felipe Tovar, Lucía Muñoz, Alonso Echánove

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

family