At a Lame Pace

May 29, 1980

2h 2m

★ 4.5

... and one day they discovered that, lacking a leg, an arm, an eye, they had plenty of desire to fight, to enjoy, to steal, to rape ... to live!

Overview

Ragtag crew of indigents from an asylum for the handicapped form a squadron to defend the Church during the Cristero Uprising.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Conacite Dos

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Cast

Luis Manuel Pelayo

Bruno Rey

Roberto 'El Flaco' Guzmán

Noé Murayama

Roberto Cobo

Julio Alejandro Lobato

Enrique Lucero

Yolanda Ochoa

Mario Zebadúa

Gabriel Retes

Carlos Nieto

Carmen Salinas

The assassination of Pancho Villa, on the outskirts of Parral, Chihuahua, plunged the city into mourning, and a wake for the revolutionary hero was held by his closest collaborators. Conspicuous among the mourners were the four women with whom Villa was having intimate relationships at the time of his death. Now that Villa is no longer around to mediate and keep them apart, tensions between the women grow and intensify, with unexpected consequences. An intimate and human portrait of the Centaur of the North.

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At a Lame Pace

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