The Beginning and the End

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.

• Release date
• June 24, 1994
• Runtime
• 187 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Arturo Ripstein

Cast

Julieta Egurrola Ignacia Botero Ernesto Laguardia Gabriel Botero Bruno Bichir Nicolás Botero Lucía Muñoz Mireya Botero Alberto Estrella Guama Botero Verónica Merchant Natalia Luis Felipe Tovar César Blanca Guerra Julia