Under the VolcanoMark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama |
Year | 1984 |
Country | Mexico , USA |
Premiere | |
Budget | $0 |
Box | in world | $2 556 800 | USA | $2 556 800 | In other countries | $0 |
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Duration | 01:52 |
Storyline
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.