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The Citrillo's Turn
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The Citrillo's Turn

2006-11-10 · 97 min · ★ 4.0

Fantasy · Drama

1903, before the Revolution… The Citrillo’s Turns is a pulque bar in Mexico City, in which beings with no present or future gather to drink their lives away and tell stories of the dead and apparitions. Thus is woven a story of real passions –love, betrayal, jealousy, pillage- in an atmosphere of drunkenness and hallucination.

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Directors
Felipe Cazals
Production companies
Serenisima Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad
Countries
Mexico
Status
Released

Top Cast

Damián AlcázarDamián AlcázarSergeant Collazo
José María YázpikJosé María YázpikJosé Isabel
Vanessa BaucheVanessa BaucheMelba
Giovanna ZacaríasGiovanna ZacaríasBrigida
Mario ZaragozaMario ZaragozaDijunto Melgarejo
Jorge ZárateJorge ZárateCape Aboytes
Pedro AltamiranoPedro AltamiranoSoto Tercero
Alfredo BarreraCabo de Guardia
Araceli CastroWoman
Carlos CobosPriest Jonas
Luis EstudianteElderly Blind
Enrique GarciaProcoro Rivera
Diego Antonio GonzálezDoctrino
Guillermo HernándezLeobardo Ruiseco
Lina HernándezLeobardos' woman
José Sergio JiménezPriest
Alfonso MagaldyCarcamenero
José Carlos Navarrete GarcíaCarlos
Luis ReyesIndian
Noemí Rodriguez VidalMuchachona

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