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City of the Blind
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City of the Blind

1991-10-31 · 87 min · ★ 5.2

Drama

Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.

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Directors
Alberto Cortés
Production companies
Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica, Tabasco Films, Bataclán Cinematográfica, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
Countries
Mexico
Status
Released

Top Cast

Gabriela RoelGabriela RoelSocorro
Silvia MariscalSilvia MariscalSeñora Sandoval
Claudia FernándezLeonor
Claudette MailléClaudette MailléLourdes
Verónica MerchantVerónica MerchantRaquel
Roberto SosaRoberto SosaSalvador
Carmen SalinasCarmen SalinasÁngela
Zaide Silvia GutiérrezZaide Silvia GutiérrezTeo
Luis Felipe TovarLuis Felipe TovarPiter
Rita GuerreroMaricela
Dobrina LiubomirovaDobrina LiubomirovaFanny
Arcelia RamírezArcelia RamírezMara
Fernando BalzarettiFernando BalzarettiLicenciado Sandoval
Elpidia CarrilloElpidia CarrilloFabiola
Emilio CortésClaudio
Alfonso FigueroaSelf
Blanca GuerraBlanca GuerraInés
Benny IbarraBenny IbarraLucio
Juan IbarraMario
Patricio IglesiasSelf

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