Under the Volcano
One cannot live without love.
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
- Year: 1984
- Country: Mexico, United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Conacite Uno, Ithaca, Universal Pictures
- Keyword: depression, mexico, husband wife relationship, bullfighting, based on novel or book, fascism, half-brother, alcoholism, alcoholic, drunk, cuckold, consul, day of the dead, 1930s, foreign diplomat
- Director: John Huston
- Cast: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso, Katy Jurado, James Villiers
