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The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas
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.
2012 · Directed by Luis Mandoki · 115 min · Drama · 8 frames
Tagline
To dream of the american dream is easy, but it is difficult to cross Mexico.
Crew
- Screenplay: Diana Cardozo
- Cinematography: Damián García
- Edited by: Mariana Rodríguez
- Production design: Antonio Muñohierro
Cast
- Greisy Mena as Sabina Rivas
- Joaquín Cosío as Burrona
- Fernando Moreno as Jovany
- Angelina Peláez as Doña Lita
- Tenoch Huerta Mejía as Juan
- Beto Benitez as Tata Añorve
- Nick Chinlund as Patrick
- Mario Zaragoza as Sarabia
- Argél Galindo as Jefe Mara-Poisson
- Dagoberto Gama as General Valderrama
Production
- Country: Mexico
- Language: Spanish
- Studios: Churchill Toledo, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
- Budget: $4,620,000
- Box office: $2,395,000
- Themes: refugee camp, drug trafficking, singer, mexican, mexican army, sex slavery
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