Jorge Fons	...	(Director)
Vicente Leñero, Najeeb Mahfouz	...	(Writer)
Ernesto Gómez Cruz	...	Don Ru
María Rojo	...	Doña Cata
Salma Hayek	...	Alma
Bruno Bichir	...	Abel
Delia Casanova	...	Eusebia
Margarita Sanz	...	Susanita
Claudio Obregón	...	Don Fidel
Juan Manuel Bernal	...	Chava
Abel Woolrich	...	Zacarías
Luis Felipe Tovar	...	Güicho
Daniel Giménez Cacho	...	José Luis
Gina Morett	...	Doña Flor
Óscar Yoldi	...	Ubaldo
Esteban Soberanes	...	Jimmy
Eugenia Leñero	...	Tina
Ernesto Gomez Cruz	...	Rutilio (Don Ru)
Tiaré Scanda	...	Maru
Alvaro Carcano	...	Doc. Beltrán
Fernando García Ortega	...	Agapito
Alfonso Bravo	...	Tono
Jesús Ochoa	...	Parroquiano
Lucía Álvarez	...	Pianista Burdel
Guillermo Ayala	...	Agente
Veronica Falcón	...	Kika
Anna Ciocchetti	...	Burdel
Claudia Goytia	...	Burdel
Daniel Birman Ripstein	...	Don Fidel's Son (uncredited)
Federico García	...	Still Photographer
Carlos Marcovich	...	Director of Photography
Carlos Savage	...	Editor
Claudia Becker	...	Casting
Elvia Romero	...	Makeup Artist
Gerardo Barrera	...	Production Manager
René Villarreal	...	Assistant Director
Mario Zaragoza	...	Assistant Director
Avelino Rodríguez	...	Assistant Director
Antonio Mata	...	property master
Eduardo Valverde	...	Boom Operator
Manuel Sáinz	...	Visual Effects
Larry Engelmann	...	color timer
Rafael Savage	...	Assistant editor
Ricardo Díaz Avilés	...	Transportation Captain
Enrique Díaz	...	Transportation Co-Captain
José Luis Ortega	...	Script Supervisor
Gustavo Covarrubias	...	Grip
Enrique Morales	...	Gaffer

Summary: Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighbourhood and the connection between them Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Chava, his son and Abel his friend, who emigrate to USA in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landtender always dreaming to marry a good man; Guicho, the pub's employee, who extracts the money when Don Ru is not there and finally marries Susanita; Alma, the very good looking girl, the Abel's dream, who becomes a luxury prostitute while he's away; Jimmy, the handsome young man Don Ru becomes infatuated with, etc. This movie won the Ariel (the Mexican Oscar) as best movie in 1995.