A History of Love and War

November. 21,2024      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

This outrageous comedy stages a soap opera of epic proportions, as one corrupt property developer faces trial for Mexico's violent history. The fourth feature from Santiago Mohar Volkow, Una historia de amor y guerra centres on real estate baron Pepe Sánchez-Campo, whose mega-mall development brings him into conflict with local guerrillas. For once, bribery and a call to Daddy might not be enough to save Pepe – a character more grotesque than the telenovela unfolding around him. Trying to sabotage Pepe's marriage to Constanza, her cousin and lover Teo records Pepe cheating. The resulting chaos precipitates in a burlesque bloodbath involving treachery, talking animals, colonial history and bartering in the afterlife.

Andrew Leland Rogers as  Pepe Sánchez Campo
Lucía Gómez-Robledo as  Constaza
Mónica del Carmen as  Justina Venganza
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as  Toño Muerte
Aldo Escalante as  Engels
Teresa Sánchez as  Abogada
Sophie Gómez as  Paty
Hernán del Riego as  Luis
Patricia Bernal as  Lulú