Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

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 for Under the Volcano...

Albert Finney
Geoffrey Firmin
Jacqueline Bisset
Yvonne Firmin
Anthony Andrews
Hugh Firmin
Katy Jurado
Senora Gregoria
Carlos Riquelme
Bustamante
Eleazar García Jr.
Chief of Gardens
Salvador Sánchez
Chief of Stockyards
Sergio Calderón
Chief of Municipality
Roberto Sosa
Few Fleas
Hugo Stiglitz
Sinarquista
Ugo Moctezuma
Latin Consul
Isabel Vázquez
Chicken Lady
Gustavo Fernandez
Transvestite
Eduardo Borbolla
Don Juan Tenorio
Ramiro Ramírez
Second Horseman
Günter Meisner
Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)