The Realm of Fortune

"If you have nothing, something will touch you. If you have something, you will get much more. If you want more, you can lose everything. This is the law, in "The Empire of Fortune"."

1986

2h 10m

5.4(21 votes)

Drama

Overview

Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.

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42 members

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Ernesto Gómez Cruz

Dionisio Pinzón

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Blanca Guerra

La Caponera

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Alejandro Parodi

Lorenzo Benavides

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Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez

La Pinzona

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Socorro Avelar

Madre de Dionisio

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Juan Antonio Llanes

Cura de San Miguel

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Carlos Cardán

Don Isabel

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Loló Navarro

Doña Iris

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Edmundo Barahona

Merenguero

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Raymundo Gómez Cruz

Quitamantas

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María Barber

Monja

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Jorge Fegán

Juez Veedor

Art

Alfonso Godínez

Amarrador

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Emilio Ebergenyi

Padrino

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José Ruvinskis

Padrino

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Raul Valerio

Carmelo

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José Escandón

Corredor de apuestas

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Tito Guillén

Patrón cantina

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Eduardo Cassab

Voceador de lotería

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Alberto Estrella

Montero

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René Pereyra

Tahur

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Margot Narvaez

Gorda

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Ignacio Retes

Don Gil

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Adolfo Magaldi

Gallero

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Federico González

Gordo comegallos

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Regino Herrera

Viejo

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Francisco Llopis

Español

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Miriam Aragon

Mujer Embarazada

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Eduardo López Rojas

Secundino Colmeneros

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Isela Díaz

Pinzona niña

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Ernesto Yáñez

Patilludo

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Alfredo Sevilla

Gordo

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Fernando Palavicini

Solón

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Yaco Alva

Jugador

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Isidro Tellez

Jugador

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Margarita Sanz

Cara de Canario

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Luisa Huertas

Campesina

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Carlos Chávez

Campesino

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Carlos López

Taxista

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Abel Woolrich

Padrino

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Leonor Llausás

Patrona fonda

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Wolf Ruvinskis

Doctor

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