
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.

as Geoffrey Firmin

as Yvonne Firmin

as Hugh Firmin

as Dr. Vigil

as Senora Gregoria

as Brit

as Quincey

as Bustamante

as Gringo

as Dwarf

as Chief of Gardens

as Chief of Stockyards

as Chief of Municipality

as Maria

as Diosdado

as Cervantes

as Few Fleas

as Sinarquista

as Latin Consul

as Chicken Lady

as Transvestite

as Concepta

as Matador

as Don Juan Tenorio

as Doña Ines

as Bus Driver

as Passenger

as Dead Indian

as Horseman

as Second Horseman

as Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)

as (uncredited)