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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Albert Finney as Geoffrey Firmin
Jacqueline Bisset as Yvonne Firmin
Anthony Andrews as Hugh Firmin
Ignacio López Tarso as Dr. Vigil
Katy Jurado as Senora Gregoria
James Villiers as Brit
Dawson Bray as Quincey
Carlos Riquelme as Bustamante
Jim McCarthy as Gringo
José René Ruiz as Dwarf
Eleazar García Jr. as Chief of Gardens
Salvador Sánchez as Chief of Stockyards
Sergio Calderón as Chief of Municipality
Araceli Ladewuen Castelun as Maria
Emilio Fernández as Diosdado
Arturo Sarabia as Cervantes
Roberto Sosa as Few Fleas
Hugo Stiglitz as Sinarquista
Ugo Moctezuma as Latin Consul
Isabel Vázquez as Chicken Lady
Gustavo Fernandez as Transvestite
Irene Díaz de Dávila as Concepta
Alberto Olvera as Matador
Eduardo Borbolla as Don Juan Tenorio
Alejandro Suárez as Doña Ines
Rodolfo De Alexandre as Bus Driver
Juan Ángel Martínez as Passenger
Martín Palomares Carrión as Dead Indian
Mario Arévalo as Horseman
Ramiro Ramírez as Second Horseman
Günter Meisner as Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)
Alfonso Castro Valle as (uncredited)
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