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Herod's Law (1999)
Directed by Luis Estrada
“Why don't they want you to see it?”
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Drama · 2h 03m
In the 1940s, a small Mexican town has seen its last three mayors assassinated in rapid succession. A naive janitor is recruited to become the new mayor, and he believes he will modernize the little town and usher in a reign of peace. But the system corrupts him very quickly, and he takes to abusing his power while associating with an unscrupulous assortment of opportunists, hypocrites and criminals.
Cast
Damián Alcázar
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Salvador Sánchez
Isela Vega
Juan Carlos Colombo
Delia Casanova
Leticia Huijara
Alex Cox
Guillermo Gil
Eduardo López Rojas
Ernesto Gómez Cruz
Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Crew
- Director
- Luis Estrada
- Screenplay
- Jaime Sampietro, Vicente Leñero, Fernando Javier León Rodríguez, Luis Estrada
- Director of Photography
- Norman Christianson
- Editor
- Luis Estrada
- Producer
- Luis Estrada
Details
- Original title
- La ley de Herodes
- Release date
- 1999-11-09
- Runtime
- 2h 03m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Drama
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, English
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Bandidos Films, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Alta Vista Film Production, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad
- Box office
- $52,000