The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2013)

  • NR
  • 01/27/2013 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 55m

To dream of the american dream is easy, but it is difficult to cross Mexico.

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.

Rafael Ramírez Heredia

Novel

Diana Cardozo

Screenplay

Luis Mandoki

Director

Cast

Joaquín Cosío's headshot

Joaquín Cosío

Burrona
Greisy Mena's headshot

Greisy Mena

Sabina Rivas
Fernando Moreno's headshot

Fernando Moreno

Jovany
Angelina Peláez's headshot

Angelina Peláez

Doña Lita
Tenoch Huerta Mejía's headshot

Tenoch Huerta Mejía

Juan
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez's headshot

Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

Madre de Sabina y Jovany
Tony Dalton's headshot

Tony Dalton

John
Dagoberto Gama's headshot

Dagoberto Gama

General Valderrama

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