Under the Volcano

Movie

Under the Volcano

Drama

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.

Date: 06/20/1984

Rating: 6.5

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

Albert Finney