The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012)

7.2/10 115 min Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Greisy Mena

Sabina Rivas

Joaquín Cosío

Burrona

Fernando Moreno

Jovany

Angelina Peláez

Doña Lita

Tenoch Huerta Mejía

Juan

Beto Benitez

Tata Añorve

Nick Chinlund

Patrick

Mario Zaragoza

Sarabia

Argél Galindo

Jefe Mara-Poisson

Dagoberto Gama

General Valderrama

Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

Madre de Sabina Rivas

Julián Pastor

Invitado a la fiesta de Cossío

Luis Yee

Pedro

Miguel Flores

Don Nico

Tito Vasconcelos

Presentador Tijuanita

Asur Zagada

Thalia

José Sefami

Lic. Cossío

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