Under the Volcano

The story

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.

Cast

A Albert FinneyGeoffrey Firmin J Jacqueline BissetYvonne Firmin A Anthony AndrewsHugh Firmin I Ignacio López TarsoDr. Vigil K Katy JuradoSenora Gregoria J James VilliersBrit D Dawson BrayQuincey C Carlos RiquelmeBustamante J Jim McCarthyGringo J José René RuizDwarf E Eleazar García Jr.Chief of Gardens S Salvador SánchezChief of Stockyards

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S Sergio CalderónChief of Municipality A Araceli Ladewuen CastelunMaria E Emilio FernándezDiosdado A Arturo SarabiaCervantes R Roberto SosaFew Fleas H Hugo StiglitzSinarquista U Ugo MoctezumaLatin Consul I Isabel VázquezChicken Lady G Gustavo FernandezTransvestite I Irene Díaz de DávilaConcepta A Alberto OlveraMatador E Eduardo BorbollaDon Juan Tenorio A Alejandro SuárezDoña Ines R Rodolfo De AlexandreBus Driver J Juan Ángel MartínezPassenger M Martín Palomares CarriónDead Indian M Mario ArévaloHorseman R Ramiro RamírezSecond Horseman G Günter MeisnerHerr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited) A Alfonso Castro Valle(uncredited)