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19943h 7m

Spanish

The Beginning and the End

Name: The Beginning and the End
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Genre: Drama
Released: 1994-06-24
Duration: 3 h 7 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Julieta Egurrola, Ernesto Laguardia, Bruno Bichir, Lucía Muñoz, Alberto Estrella

Arturo Ripstein's Masterpiece

7.9/10

7.2

TMDb

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.

DirectorArturo Ripstein