Pachito Rex: I'm Leaving but Not for Good

Nov 9, 2001

1h 26m

★ 7.6

Overview

The attack on a popular singer known as Pachito -who becomes the favorite candidate to win the presidential election in an imaginary Latin American country- is the starting point of several stories, including: the alleged murderer, a police officer investigating the disappearance of the murdered body and an architect hired to design the mausoleum to the memory of the possible dictator.

Genres

Drama

Crime

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Cast

Pachito Rex

Jorge Zárate

Rumania Merrog

Yuriria del Valle

Chueco Romo

Alejandro Calva

Machadia

Carlos Cobos

Sobrino

Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Rosa María

Ana Ofelia Murguía

Genaro

Fernando Torre Laphame

Estrada

Pedro Altamirano

Rosas

Jaime Estrada

Vendedora de flores

Mónica Huarte

Grace

Aida López

Velador

Juan Carlos Vives

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