73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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El Callejón de los Milagros / Midaq Alley

Jorge Fons
Mexico      144 m.
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The film is a modern adaptation in the centre of Mexico City of the novel by Naguib Mahfuz, set in the Cairo of the forties. It focuses on Miracle Alley and is divided into four parts: the first three (Rutilo, Alma and Susanita) are self-standing tales of three people whose stories entwine with one another, and the fourth (El Regreso) completes the narratives a couple of years later.

Director
Jorge Fons (Mexico)
Screenplay
Vicente Leñero
Production
Alameda Films (Mexico)
Alfredo Ripstein
Co-Production
Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
Sales
Alameda Films (Mexico)
Photography
Carlos Marcovich
Editing
Carlos Savage
Music
Lucia Alvarez
Sound
David Baksht
Restored by
Alameda Films
Labo Digital
Cast
Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, María Rojo, Margarita Sanz, Delia Casanova, Juan Manuel Bernal, Tiaré Scanda, Claudio Obregón, Abel Woolrich, Luis Felipe Tovar, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Gina Morett, Oscar Yoldi
Format
DCP FOLLOWING DCI
Run time
144 m.
Original language of the film
Spanish
Country
Mexico
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