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Día de muertos (1988)

Día de muertos poster
Original title
Día de difuntos
Directed by
Luis Alcoriza
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 34m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

On the Day of the Dead, a small Mexican town prepares for the holiday. The film follows several residents as they deal with family, tradition, and everyday life.

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What happens

Día de muertos ("Day of the Dead"), also known as Día de difuntos and Los hijos de la guayaba, ("The Children of the Guava") is a 1988 Mexican comedy-drama film directed by Luis Alcoriza. It is Alcoriza's penultimate film as director and his last one made entirely in Mexico; his last film directed, La sombra del ciprés es alargada, was a Mexican-Spanish co-production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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