

City of the Blind
1991-10-31 · 87 min · ★ 5.2
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
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- Directors
- Alberto Cortés
- Production companies
- Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica, Tabasco Films, Bataclán Cinematográfica, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
- Countries
- Mexico
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Gabriela RoelSocorro
Silvia MariscalSeñora Sandoval
Claudette MailléLourdes
Verónica MerchantRaquel
Roberto SosaSalvador
Carmen SalinasÁngela
Zaide Silvia GutiérrezTeo
Luis Felipe TovarPiter
Dobrina LiubomirovaFanny
Arcelia RamírezMara
Fernando BalzarettiLicenciado Sandoval
Elpidia CarrilloFabiola
Blanca GuerraInés
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