Guillermo Del Toro
Cronos
Edition 1993
95'
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1992
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Fantasy, Drama, Horror
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Dialogue:
Spanish, English
Director:
Guillermo Del Toro
Composer:
Javier Alvarez
With:
Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath
Superbly scripted and directed, Cronos is an imaginative and inventive reworking of a genre deeply rooted in Mexican film culture: the vampire movie. The story concerns the Cronos device, an object that has the power to bestow eternal life. The device was built by a 16th-century alchemist. It resurfaces in contemporary Mexico in the junk shop owned by an elderly man, Jesus Gris, who is immediately attracted by the idea of immortality. Jesus is not the only person pursuing the device for its power... (Screen International 23 / 4/93)
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Credits
Director
Guillermo Del Toro
Composer
Javier Alvarez
With
Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath
Scenario
Guillermo Del Toro
Director of Photography
Guillermo Navaroo
Editor
Raul Davalos
Producer
Arthur Gorson
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Dialogue
Spanish, English
Countries of production
Mexico
Year
1992
