Midaq alley = El callejon de los milagros
(DVD) 

Based on the novel by Naguib Mahfuz.

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1995.

Wide screen.

Special features: Behind the scenes footage; new essay by Carlos A. Gutiérrez.

Director of photography, Carlos Marcovich ; editor, Carlos Savage ; music, Lucia Alvarez.

Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Maria Rojo, Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Delia Casanova, Margarita Sanz.

Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner₂s son, Chava, who yearns to immigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel, is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma, who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita, the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband. Adapted from the novel of the Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfuz.

DVD, all regions, NTSC, wide screen (1.85:1); 2.0 stereo.

Spanish dialogue; English subtitles; closed-captioned.