El Año de la Peste (1979)
- Original title
- El año de la peste
- Directed by
- Felipe Cazals
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Mexico
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 19 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A doctor investigates a mysterious plague spreading through a Mexican city. He struggles to make authorities believe the danger as the illness grows.
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What happens
El Año de la Peste (English: The Year of the Plague) is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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