El Año de la Peste

El Año de la Peste (English: The year of the plague) is a Mexican motion picture categorized as drama, thriller and Sci-Fi. It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722. A dreadful sickness is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to aware the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the illness spreads. The government tries to manage the information in order to prevent terror.