The Year of the Plague

Year: 1978

Runtime: 109 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Felipe Cazals

DramaThrillerScience Fiction

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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