The Year of the Plague (1978)
El año de la peste
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
- Date of release
- 1978-02-12
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (19)
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
- Director
- Felipe Cazals
Casting
- Alejandro Parodi — Dr. Pedro Sierra Genovés
- José Carlos Ruiz — Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
- Rebeca Silva — Eva Aponte
- Tito Junco — President
- Ignacio Retes — Dr. Mario Zermeño
- Eduardo Alcaraz — Dr. Luis Mario Zavala
- Héctor Godoy — Luis Armando Torreros
- Humberto Elizondo — R. C. Jiménez, journalist
- Leonor Llausás — Widow of Alvarado
- Zully Keith — Magdalena, Dr. Sierra Genovés' wife
- Nora Lárraga 'Karla' — Health Inspector
- Arlette Pacheco — Journalist
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Mexico
El Año de la Peste is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi. It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722.
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