--- title: 'Under the Volcano (1984)' type: 'film' director: 'John Huston' released: '1984-01-01' runtime_minutes: 110 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' - 'Mexico' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/under-the-volcano-1984' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088322/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Under the Volcano (1984) 1984 · 110 min · Drama · United States, Mexico ## Synopsis Under the Volcano is a 1984 drama film directed by John Huston, based on Malcolm Lowry's semi-autobiographical 1947 novel. It stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, and Anthony Andrews, and features Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado and Emilio Fernández in supporting roles. The film follows 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin (Finney), an alcoholic British former consul in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac on the Day of the Dead in 1938. ## Credits - **Director:** [John Huston](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-huston), [Danny Huston](https://cinepixo.com/people/danny-huston) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alex North](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-north) - **Producer:** [Moritz Borman](https://cinepixo.com/people/moritz-borman) - **Director of Photography:** [Gabriel Figueroa](https://cinepixo.com/people/gabriel-figueroa) ## Cast - [Ignacio López Tarso](https://cinepixo.com/people/ignacio-lopez-tarso) - [Jacqueline Bisset](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacqueline-bisset) - [Carlos Riquelme](https://cinepixo.com/people/carlos-riquelme) - [Emilio Fernández](https://cinepixo.com/people/emilio-fernandez) - [Günter Meisner](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunter-meisner) - [Albert Finney](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-finney) - [Anthony Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-andrews) - [Katy Jurado](https://cinepixo.com/people/katy-jurado) - [Hugo Stiglitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/hugo-stiglitz) - [Sergio Calderón](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergio-calderon) - [James Villiers](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-villiers) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/under-the-volcano-1984 Film facts: Wikidata (Q527588); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.