El callejón de los milagros = Midaq Alley / Alameda Films ; Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia ; Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. presenta ; una película de Jorge Fons.
Salma Hayek, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Bruno Bichir, Luis Felipe Tovar, María Rojo. Based on the novel El callejón los milagros by Naguib Mahfuz. Title originally written in Arabic: Zuqāq al-Midaqq. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1994. Special features: making of; trailer; cast commentary about Selma Hayek, the director and the writer.
Summary:
This is the story of three neighbors whose lives are intertwined. Rutilio, the family man who experiences homosexual feelings that shatter his domestic life; Susanita, the spinster who dreams of getting married and falls prey to a thief; and Alma, the virgin who becomes a cocaine addicted prostitute.
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