The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

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

2012 · 115 min · ★ 7.2 · Drama

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.

Directed by Luis Mandoki · Written by Diana Cardozo

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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

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