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Arturo Ripstein

Cadena perpetua (Life sentence)

Director Arturo Ripstein Composer Miguel Pous Cast Pedro Armendariz, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angelica Chain, Ana Ofelia Murguia
Edition 1993
95' - 1979 - Crime - Dialogue: Spanish
After a failed hold-up a thief, 'El Tarzán' Lira, decides to give up his existence as a criminal. He marries and works an honest job. But after his meeting with Prieto, a corrupt police man, things start to go wrong again... Lira desperately tries to see his superior to ask him for assistance in helping to prove his honesty. To his shame he does not manage to see him. Totally disappointed he starts stealing again.

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Credits

Directors

Arturo Ripstein

Composers

Miguel Pous

Cast

Pedro Armendariz, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angelica Chain, Ana Ofelia Murguia

Scenario

Vicente Lenero, Arturo Ripstein

Director of Photography

Jorge Stahl Jr.

Editors

Rafael Ceballos

Producers

Francesco del Villar

More info

Dialogue

Spanish

Countries of production

Mexico

Screenplay based on

"Lo de Antes", (Luis Spota)

Year

1979