Principio y fin (1993)

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Country: Mexico
Genres: Drama
Release: 1994-09-09
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Writers: Paz Alicia Garciadiego , Najeeb Mahfouz
Language: Spanish
Stars: Ernesto Laguardia , Julieta Egurrola , Blanca Guerra , Verónica Merchant , Bruno Bichir , Alberto Estrella , Alonso Echánove , Lucía Muñoz , Luis Felipe Tovar , Julián Pastor
Runtime: 188 min
Awards: 18 wins & 9 nominations
AKA: Princípio e Fim (Brazil) , Principio y fin , Αρχή και τέλος (Greece) , Principio y fin (Mexico) , Principio y fin (Spain) , The Beginning and the End (United Kingdom) , The Beginning and the End , The Beginning and the End (United States of America) , Начало и конец (Russian Federation) , Początek i koniec (Poland)
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0110894