El año de la peste (1979)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Felipe Cazals

Escritores:

José Agustín (dialogue)
Juan Arturo Brennan (screenplay)
(más)

Género:

Drama | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Plot:

A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature...

Premios:

4 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Slow but Interesting Mexican Thriller showcasing government cover-up

Reparto

Alejandro Parodi	...	Dr. pedro Sierra Genoves
José Carlos Ruiz	...	Dr. jorge Martinez Abasolo
Rebeca Silva	...	Eva Aponte
Narciso Busquets	...	Julian Arango
Tito Junco	...	Presidente
Ignacio Retes	...	Dr. Mario Zermeno
Eduardo Alcaraz	...	Dr. Luis mario Zavala
Héctor Godoy	...	Luis Torreros
Humberto Elizondo	...	R. C. Jimenez
Zully Keith	...	Inspectora de salud
Leonor Llausás	...	Viuda
Arlette Pacheco	...	Reportera
Daniela Romo	...	Laura
María Barber
Carlos Bravo y Fernández
Ramón Menéndez	...	Dr. Miguel Garzon Riera
Enrique Marín
Luis Jasso

Dirigida por
Felipe Cazals

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
José Agustín		dialogue
Juan Arturo Brennan		screenplay
Gabriel García Márquez		screenplay

Producida por
Felipe Cazals	....	producer

Montaje por
Raúl J. Gasso

Compañías Productores

• Conacite Dos

Distribuidores

• Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE)

Duración:

Mexico:109 min

País:

Mexico

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Mono

Compañía:

Conacite Dos

Slow but Interesting Mexican Thriller showcasing government cover-up

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El Ano de La Peste "The year of the plague" shows the always interesting but scary premise of what would happen if a strange new disease popped up in a huge urban center with an incompetent and shady government trying to cover it up and thousands if not millions at risk.

People begin to fall mysteriously ill in Mexico City and only Dr Sierra Genoves seems to notice it. Hospitals are full of people with "bronchial pneumonia" but Dr Sierra fears its the dreaded Plague. He alerts the city and national government, his warnings falling on deaf ears: The government chooses to deny anything is wrong in the city of 18 million, while hundreds die each day.

At the end hundreds of thousands die in the capital city, including important foreign diplomats visiting the "plague free" city. Dr Sierra Genoves is left to walk the deserted streets full of trash and bodies as the President of Mexico declares "During my term there is not and will be not, a Pestilence." An interesting but sometimes slow paced thriller/drama that shows what can happen in a major city and possibly the world if a disease is not identified and stopped in time. The fate of man, rests on the shoulders of a few, ignorant individuals. Worth a check.