The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
Gabriel Byrne
as Brother Juniper
F. Murray Abraham
as Viceroy of Peru
Kathy Bates
as The Marquesa
Robert De Niro
as Archbishop of Peru
Harvey Keitel
as Uncle Pio
Pilar López de Ayala
as Camila Villegas (La Perichola)
Mark Polish
as Manuel
Michael Polish
as Esteban
Adriana Domínguez
as Pepita
Geraldine Chaplin
as The Abbess
Dominique Pinon
as His Excellency's Fop
John Lynch
as Captain Alvarado
