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)
