Arturo Ripstein
Cadena perpetua (Life sentence)
Edition 1993
95'
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1979
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Crime
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Dialogue:
Spanish
Director:
Arturo Ripstein
Composer:
Miguel Pous
With:
Pedro Armendariz, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angelica Chain, Ana Ofelia Murguia
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
Director
Arturo Ripstein
Composer
Miguel Pous
With
Pedro Armendariz, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Angelica Chain, Ana Ofelia Murguia
Scenario
Vicente Lenero, Arturo Ripstein
Director of Photography
Jorge Stahl Jr.
Editor
Rafael Ceballos
Producer
Francesco del Villar
More information
Dialogue
Spanish
Countries of production
Mexico
Screenplay based on
"Lo de Antes", (Luis Spota)
Year
1979
