Under the Volcano
One cannot live without love.
19841h 52mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
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.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- mexico
- day of the dead
- alcoholism
- alcoholic
- 1930s
- fascism
- half-brother
- depression
- husband wife relationship
- consul
- drunk
- bullfighting
- cuckold
- brothers love same woman
- foreign diplomat
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 20, 1984
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, English
- Countries
- Mexico, United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Conacite Uno,Ithaca
- Cast
- Albert Finney,Jacqueline Bisset,Anthony Andrews,Ignacio López Tarso,Katy Jurado,James Villiers,Dawson Bray,Carlos Riquelme,Jim McCarthy,José René Ruizand 22 more
- Director
- John Huston
- Writer
- Malcolm Lowry,Guy Gallo
- Cinematography
- Gabriel Figueroa
- Music
- Alex North
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0088322