Under the Volcano

(1984)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 106 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1984

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: United States of America, Mexico

Director: Джон Хьюстон

Cast: Альберт Финни, Жаклин Биссет, Энтони Эндрюс, Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado, James Villiers, Dawson Bray, Карлос Рикельме, Jim McCarthy, José René Ruiz

Plot

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.