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Arturo Ripstein's Masterpiece
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.Read moreLess
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The story
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Cast & crew
Julieta EgurrolaIgnacia Botero
Ernesto LaguardiaGabriel Botero
Bruno BichirNicolás Botero
Lucía MuñozMireya Botero
Alberto EstrellaGuama Botero
Verónica MerchantNatalia
Luis Felipe TovarCésar
Blanca GuerraJulia
Luisa HuertasIsabel
Julián PastorLuján
Ernesto YáñezPolvorón
Alonso EchánoveCariñosoExplore the crew
- Producer
- Alfredo Ripstein Jr.
- Editor
- Rafael Castanedo
- Producer
- Arturo Ripstein
- Director
- Arturo Ripstein
- Writer
- Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Director of Photography
- Claudio Rocha
- Original Music Composer
- Lucía Álvarez