The Beginning and the End

Principio y fin

“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.

Regie

Arturo Ripstein

Drehbuch

Paz Alicia Garciadiego

Novela

Naguib Mahfouz

Musik

Lucía Álvarez

Status

Veröffentlicht

Veröffentlichung

24/06/1994

Originalsprache

Spanisch