The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
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Cast
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Richard Bohringer
Él
Known for
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Would I Lie to You?
Carlos Castañon
Jimmy
Known for
Darkness
Beneath Still Waters
Jacques Le Glou
Also in
Rencontre avec Jean Rollin et Jean-Pierre Bouyxou à la boutique Hors-Circuits
Kean - Roi de théâtre
Ariel Zúñiga
America Cisneros
Also in
La pulquería
El Macho in a Women's Prison
Juan Manuel González
Killer
Also in
Algo sobre Jaime Sabines
Pistoleros de la frontera
Catherine Jourdan
América
Known for
Le Samouraï
Eden and After
Martin LaSalle
Known for
Pickpocket
Alucarda
Alfredo Sevilla
Known for
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Patricia Meyer
Adriana Roel
Known for
My Love, My Sin
El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar
Rodolfo Zanabria
Also in
Anacrusa
Ariel Zúñiga Director · Carlos Castañon Writer Beto Mendez Composer
First release September 15, 1983 · Produced in Mexico, France · Production Estudios América, Les Films du Passage
Production
Conacite Dos
Production
Estudios América
Production
Les Films du Passage
Production
Mexico · France
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Languages
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Spain · September 15, 1983
Premiere · San Sebastián International Film Festival
Mexico · April 3, 1984
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
September 25, 1983 · Premiere · Biarritz Film Festival
Mexico
December 1, 1983 · Premiere · XVI Muestra Internacional de Cine
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