Cronos

Resource Information

The work Cronos represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Cronos

Statement of responsibility

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematográfia, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica, Universidad de Guadalajara, [others] presentan una producción de Producciones Iguana en asociación con Ventana Films ; productor, Arthur H. Gorson ; productora, Bertha Navarro ; escrita y dirigida por Guillermo del Toro

Contributor

• Navarro, Guillermo
• Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico)
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica
• Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía
• Producciones Iguana
• Universidad de Guadalajara
• Ventana Films
• Alvarez, Javier
• Alvarez, Javier, 1956-
• Brook, Claudio
• Cordero, Laurencio
• Dávalos, Raúl
• Figueroa, Tolita
• Gorson, Arthur H
• Isabel, Margarita
• Luppi, Federico
• Navarro, Bertha
• Perlman, Ron, 1950-
• Shanath, Tamara
• Toro, Guillermo del, 1964-

Actor

• Shanath, Tamara

Composer

• Alvarez, Javier, 1956-

Subject

• Feature films -- Mexico
• Grandchildren -- Drama
• Horror films
• Immortality -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Mexico -- Drama
• Motion pictures, Spanish
• Vampire films
• Vampires -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Antiquarians -- Drama
• Businessmen -- Drama
• Fantasy
• Feature films

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Vampire films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Horror films

Language

• spa
• eng
• spa

Summary

• Throughout a career that encompasses both visually arresting art-house hits and big-budget Hollywood spectacles, director Guillermo del Toro has continually redefined and elevated the horror genre with his deeply personal explorations of myths and monsters and showcase his singular fusion of the fantastic and the real
• In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst for human blood. Elsewhere in the city, a dying industrialist obtains the alchemist's journal, learns of the device, and imports his American nephew to track down and obtain the device, by force if necessary. Señor Gris can grasp the gift of time, but the cost is high. Can he keep his soul intact faced with such great temptation, or will he be overcome?

Member of

• Criterion collection, 551

Awards note

Ariel Awards, 1993 [Mexico's premiere film awards]: Golden Ariel (Guillermo del Toro); Cannes Film Festival, 1993: Mercedes-Benz Award (Guillermo del Toro)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Guillermo Navarro ; production designer, Tolita Figueroa ; editor, Raul Davalos ; music, Javier Alvarez ; special effects, Laurencio Cordero

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

Spanish audio and occasional English dialogue; with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.C87 2010

PerformerNote

Federico Luppi (Jesús Gris), Ron Perlman (Angel), Claudio Brook (De la Guardia), Margarita Isabel (Mercedes), Tamara Shanath (Aurora)

Runtime

92

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

551

Technique

live action