El año de la peste

El año de la peste
El año de la peste
Directed by	Felipe Cazals
Written by	Gabriel García Márquez; José Agustín; Juan Arturo Brennan
Based on	A Journal of the Plague Year; by Daniel Defoe
Produced by	Felipe Cazals
Starring	Alejandro Parodi; José Carlos Ruiz; Rebeca Silva; Tito Junco
Cinematography	Javier Cruz
Edited by	Raúl Caso
Music by	Laura Quiroz
Production; company	Conacite Dos
Distributed by	IMCINE
Release date	12 February 1978;
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

El Año de la Peste (English: The Year of the Plague) is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi.^[1] It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722.^[2]

Synopsis

A dreadful sickness is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listens to him and soon the illness spreads. The government tries to manage the information in order to prevent terror.^[3]

Cast

Alejandro Parodi as Dr. Pedro Sierra Genovés
José Carlos Ruiz as Dr. Jorge Martínez Abasolo
Rebeca Silva as Eva Aponte
Tito Junco as President of Mexico
Ignacio Retes as Dr. Mario Zermeño
Eduardo Alcaraz as Dr. Luis Mario Zavala
Héctor Godoy as Luis Armando Torreros
Humberto Elizondo as R. C. Jiménez
Leonor Llausás as Álvaro's widow
Zully Keith as Magadalena
Nora Larraga as Health inspector
Arlette Pacheco as News reporter
María Barber as President's wife
Daniela Romo as Laura

Awards

Date	Award	Category	Recipients and nominees	Result
27 October 1970	Ariel Awards^[4]	Golden Ariel	Felipe Cazals	Won
		Best Direction	Felipe Cazals	Won
		Best Screenplay	Gabriel García Márquez Juan Arturo Brennan	Won
18 May 1980	Mexican Cinema Journalists^[5]	Best Screenplay, Adapted	Gabriel García Márquez Juan Arturo Brennan	Won

References

^ Carl J. Mora (7 May 2015). Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, 3d ed. McFarland. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-7864-9187-2.
^ "El Año de la Peste | DANIELA ROMO". Archived from the original on March 5, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2009.
^ "El año de la peste (1979) : Plot Summary". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
^ "Ariel Awards, Mexico : Date: October 27 1980 : Location: Mexico". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.
^ "Mexican Cinema Journalists : Date: May 18 1980 : Location: Mexico City, Mexico". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

External links

El Año de la Peste at IMDb

[Mora2015-1] Carl J. Mora (7 May 2015). Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, 3d ed. McFarland. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-0-7864-9187-2.

[2] "El Año de la Peste | DANIELA ROMO". Archived from the original on March 5, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2009.

[3] "El año de la peste (1979) : Plot Summary". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

[4] "Ariel Awards, Mexico : Date: October 27 1980 : Location: Mexico". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

[5] "Mexican Cinema Journalists : Date: May 18 1980 : Location: Mexico City, Mexico". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-07-07.

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v t e Works by Gabriel García Márquez
Novels	In Evil Hour One Hundred Years of Solitude The Autumn of the Patriarch Chronicle of a Death Foretold Love in the Time of Cholera The General in His Labyrinth Of Love and Other Demons Memories of My Melancholy Whores Until August
Short stories	"Leaf Storm" "No One Writes to the Colonel" "Big Mama's Funeral" "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" "Strange Pilgrims" "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
Non-fiction	The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Clandestine in Chile News of a Kidnapping Living to Tell the Tale
Other works	El año de la peste The Solitude of Latin America
Miscellaneous	Macondo