The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

Nov 9, 2012

1h 55m

★ 7.1

To dream of the american dream is easy, but it is difficult to cross Mexico.

Overview

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Churchill Toledo

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

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Cast

Sabina Rivas

Greisy Mena

Burrona

Joaquín Cosío

Jovany

Fernando Moreno

Doña Lita

Angelina Peláez

Juan

Tenoch Huerta Mejía

Tata Añorve

Beto Benitez

Patrick

Nick Chinlund

Sarabia

Mario Zaragoza

Jefe Mara-Poisson

Argél Galindo

General Valderrama

Dagoberto Gama

Madre de Sabina Rivas

Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

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