Cronos
An ancient device. A modern discovery. A terrifying tale of the eternal.
Cronos (1993)
Timing:
1:34 (94 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Budget
$2 000 000
Revenue
$621 392
Director
Actors
Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Mario Iván Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Farnesio de Bernal, Juan Carlos Colombo, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Bertha Navarro, Arthur Gorson
Operator
Composer
Javier Álvarez
Artist
Audition
Editing
Raúl Dávalos
All team (23)
All team (23)
Short description
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
What's left behind the scenes
- All the "magical" devices made for the film were stolen after filming ended. Those currently held by director Guillermo del Toro are simply copies.
- The role of Jesus Gris was originally written for Max von Sydow.
- The plot stipulated that the Angel was to speak fluent Spanish. It turned out, however, that the actor playing the role could speak Spanish, but his speech could not be used in the film, so the script was rewritten and the character was made a US emigrant who hates Mexico and his own presence there so much that he deliberately speaks poor Spanish – a language he barely knows.
- Two guards were deliberately made somewhat caricatured. Guillermo del Toro later said he did this in retaliation for numerous Hollywood films in which Mexicans are depicted schematically and stereotypically.
- The Alchemist at the beginning of the film bears the surname Fulcanelli. Under this name lived one of the most famous alchemists of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, who mysteriously disappeared without a trace in the 1940s and was never seen again.
- The filmmakers were allocated a budget of $1.5 million, but they exceeded it, and the budget reached $2 million (at that time this was the most expensive Mexican film in production). The director, Guillermo del Toro, scraped together half a million himself by taking out loans, Ron Perlman agreed to a significant reduction in his fee for filming, and since then Perlman and del Toro have become close friends who have repeatedly worked together.
- At the beginning of the film, the viewer sees a 'No Parking' sign. These signs with inscriptions in Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, and Russian were created specifically for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The text refers to Eje Central Lazaro Cardenas, one of the central streets of Mexico City, where the Palace of Fine Arts and the national bank are located.
- All the 'magical' devices made for the film were stolen after filming ended. Those currently kept by director Guillermo del Toro are simply copies.
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