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The Year of the Plague (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 109 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Felipe Cazals
- Starring
- Ramón Menéndez, Tito Junco, Humberto Elizondo, José Carlos Ruiz, Daniela Romo, Martin LaSalle
When a deadly illness emerges in a remote Mexican town, a local doctor quickly realizes it is an epidemic and urges the authorities to act. Ignored, the infection spreads rapidly throughout the region, and the government moves to suppress information to avoid widespread panic.
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