Juan Luis Galiardo
Birthday: Born in 1940-03-02 in San Roque, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain
Deathday: 2012-06-22
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La mujer de tu vida
Character: Juan
A young innocent man pursued for murder finds refuge with a bored married woman. Soon they become lovers....
La Regenta
Character: Álvaro Mesía
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Turno de Oficio
Character: Juan Luis Funes
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Página de Sucesos
Character: Gerardo
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Movie Credits
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
Character: Arsenio
The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn't want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. One day Manuel sees his dream girl and follows her on a trolley car to Malvarossa beach. He then studies in college, meets call girl La China who teaches him love secrets, but still remembers that girl....
High Voltage
Character: José
José, a young mechanic, arrives in Madrid to make it big. After being conned he loses his savings, and is taken in by Elisa, a photographer. She introduces him to Pablo and Laura. Laura makes him an offer he cant refuse and then his troubles really begin....
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Character: Film Critic
The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future....
Los mares del sur
Character: Pepe Carvalho
Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered....
Autopsy
Character: Juan
Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage....
The Call of the Wild
Character: Seze
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part of how he survives....
La Regenta
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The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic....
Dirty Vivancos III
Character: Pajarda
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I Love Miami
Character: Fidel/Alejandro
Cuban leader Fidel Castro is humbled when he arrives in Miami and experiences America from the unique perspective of a typical Cuban-American in producer-turned-director Alejandro Gonzalez Padilla's clever culture shock drama....
As Luck Would Have It
Character: Alcalde
Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. R...
Don Juan, My Dear Ghost
Character: Don Juan
Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies....
Mayordomo para todo
Character: Carlos
Carlos, a young "playboy" who lives on the Costa del Sol, has a servant named German who has made him believe he has a degenerative disease by maintaining many sexual relationships, and that he will die if he continues doing so. But Carlos does not want to lose his playboy reputation, so German, his "faithful" butler, substitutes him in bed while Carlos convinces all his conquests that he prefers to make love with the lights off. But the plan is endangered when Carlos meets a girl and wants to...
La chica de los anuncios
Character: Leo
The classic good-looking girl from village, comes to the capital willing to make the world hers. Her idea is to succeed in the advertising world as a girl-ad...
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
Character: Fray Liborio / Juan
After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother of one of them indicating that he is the natural son of a landowner in Extremadura. In order to claim the legacy of his friend the monk who has lived outside the convent for some time plans their voyage to the property of his father picking up on their way his daughter and lover. Once in Extremadura things look a little different to what the plans ...
Little Spanish Soldier
Character: Francisco Calleja
A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmental and family pressures, will force the young to make a decision that will have unforeseeable consequences....
A Lady Called Andrew
Character: Andrés Guzmán
From the Olymp the gods keep an eye on a married couple whose disputes are endangering the stability of their marriage. In order to repair the relationship they use unconventional methods......
Tango
Character: Angelo Larroca
A dangerous love affair inspires a director to create the most spectacular and boldly seductive dance film ever made....
El disputado voto del señor Cayo
Character: Víctor
Based on Miguel Delibes novel. Rafael Corral, socialist member, decide to attend to the funeral of a friend although they had recomended him not to go for politic reasons. He finds there some friends and talking with them makes him to change his mind....
Family
Character: Santiago
Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and ...
Imposible para una solterona
Character: Luis
Gina is a single woman with a good job. From very attractive features, its beauty shines it should not because of their excess weight. Her boyfriend decides to leave her and from that moment her life is shrouded in sadness and monotony. Everything changes when he bursts into her life a very handsome young man called Luis. But it's intentions are not clear, Gina must discover the reasons that really move her wooer ......
Novios 68
Character: Antonio, novio de Julia
Comedy that chronicles the ups and downs in dating of several people in Spain in 1968....
Tomorrow Is Another Day
Character: Paco
Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car with the intention of building a future in show business. After unsuccessfully looking for work, the two youngsters will be immersed in crime and prostitution....
No desearás la mujer de tu prójimo
Character: Carlos
The plot narrates how a group of inseparable friends feel, suddenly, the urgent need to deceive each other with their respective wives. Ladies, attractive, intelligent and wealthy, decide to teach a lesson to the new "Don Juans"....
Clara es el precio
Character: Jorge
In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she do...
Little Bird
Character: Tío Emilio
Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature, and lush, warm family, Manu find his first love and the first signs of adulthood....
Don Quixote, Knight Errant
Character:
After an old soldier named Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) wrote the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, the knight and his squire have become very popular. When he learns that the Turkish comes along the Mediterranean coast with a powerful army, Don Quixote will undertake, again opposed by his niece and his housekeeper, a new adventure that begins in La Mancha and ends on the coast....
Un día con Sergio
Character: Sergio Melgar
Sergio, a film heartthrob in the decline of his career, agrees to spend 24 hours with the winner of a radio contest. The fate of the prize lies with Tina, a girl from the small town of Algarrobo of Mijares, a fervent admirer of the actor....
The Stash
Character: Curro
Paco, a truck driver who has always been dedicated to smuggling, hires Curro as an assistant, a young man wanting to make money without caring about the way to get it. The two drivers are surprised by an offer that far exceeds what they use to perceive: they have to transport illegal immigrants from Portugal to the French border....
En Andalucía nació el amor
Character: Luis
Barajas Airport comes Natia, the two million tourists, a beautiful Swedish fleeing a disappointment in love. The prize is a trip to Andalucia accompanied by a guide. This, the wait is pleasantly surprised by the girl and came across the long and enjoyable trip....
La Promesa
Character:
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Order to Kill
Character: Richard Francis
An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura....
Madregilda
Character: Legionnaire
Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern....
Comando Txikia: muerte de un presidente
Character: Julen
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The Flight of the Dove
Character:
A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who see the cinema as something unattainable. From his balcony, Paloma, does not lose detail of the shooting, nor of the movements of the gallant, for which he feels a strong attraction....
Miguel and William
Character: Miguel de Cervantes
A romantic comedy inventing a friendship between Cervantes and Shakespeare who both fall in love with a beautiful Spanish woman....
Sword of Zorro
Character:
The masked avenger of 1830s California leads his two swashbuckling children into battle against a tyrannical governor....
El señor de los Llanos
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Spain, 30's. Fabian Insausti (Juan Luis Galiardo), which has become a rich landowner in Venezuela, returns to his hometown due to the death of his mother. One day he decides to visit an old mansion converted into a luxury brothel, and there falls in love with Ana (Maribel Verdú), a young prostitute. He asks her to accompany him, but she is not willing to give up the luxury of home run by Charo, for her real mother. So the owner Fabian offers its pupils move to Venezuela, under the same condition...
Policía
Character: Maxi
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Goodbye from the Heart
Character: Juan
Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive....
Seven Golden Men
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After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation....
Lisístrata
Character: Hepatitos
411 BC, Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace....
Los buenos días perdidos
Character:
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Dear Professor
Character:
A candid teacher is the victim of a practical joke by some students who make him believe that one of the girls in class is in love with him. The poor man takes the bait and falls in love with the girl, seeing in her the last train of her sentimental life....
El arte de vivir
Character: Juanjo
After graduating in Economics, Luis is seeking to burst through in life. His partner Ana sees how his way of being is changing by the standards of his company into a different person. Ana tries to draw his attention in a failed suicide attempt....
After Nine Months
Character: Pablo Román
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Préstame tu mujer
Character: Rodolfo
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Guarapo
Character: Don Virgilio
Benito a.k.a. Guarapo, is a young laborer without land, who dreams of emigrating to America for a better future....
Seven Into Hell
Character: Rob
A group of misfit G.I.s go on a suicide mission behind the enemy lines. This time the objective is a to destroy a crucial Nazi transmitter before the launch of the D-Day invasion....
Two Males for Alexa
Character: Pietro
A young girl marries the wealthy father of one of her male friends at college, but she soon finds herself falling for her new husband’s son. The husband finds out about the two, and comes up with what he believes to be a foolproof plan: he will frame his wife and his son for his own murder, then have the pair locked in a room in his remote, isolated estate–with his own dead body....
Acteón
Character: Joven
An expressionist reimagining of the classic Greek myth involving Acteón and Diana, transposed to Spain's Costa Brava by a future auteur of horror cinema. Based on the myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses in which Acteón accidentally catches a glimpse of Diana, the goddess of love, and is subsequently turned into a deer for his dogs to devour, Jorge Grau's modernist retelling resets the story to contemporary Spain, where a fisherman – played by Martin LaSalle, star of Bresson's Pickpocket – follows an...
Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Character: il tenente Robin Curtis
During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action....
I want to dream
Character: Juan Luis
A boy lives with the last man his mother loved before she died, but a well-matched couple wants to stay with him and adopt him as their son due to their problems conceiving. Although the situation for the orphan is not the best after his mother died, little by little he will find happiness and overcome it in a water park. There he will become a great inseparable friend of the dolphins....
Terapia al desnudo
Character: Ricardo
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...And the Third Year, He Resuscitated
Character: Automovilista
On November 20, 1978 a truck driver picks up a man on the road, that tells him to take him to Pardo's Palace. Soon, the truck driver begins to realize who this person is....
Clandestinos
Character: Germán
Xabi, a troubled boy, meets Iñaki, a member of the terrorist gang ETA who becomes his mentor and ideological inspiration. Some time later, Xabi is arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and confined in a juvenile detention center, where he meets Joel, a Mexican, and Driss, a Moroccan, with whom he manages to flee and reach Madrid with the purpose of finding Iñaki and joining the gang....
Novios de la muerte
Character:
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Fourteen Stations
Character: Lázaro
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Franky Banderas
Character: Avelino Lechuga
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Las nenas del mini-mini
Character: Chalo
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With a Borrowed Body
Character: Pedro
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Our Animal Neighbors!
Character: Sres. Galápagos
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Antony and Cleopatra
Character: Alexis
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war....
Light My Passion
Character: Lucas
The relationship that botanist Angel establishes in his mind between plants, their stems, petals and pistils and the legs and feet of women, is the common thread of a plot that mixes sexual passion, love, greed and picaresque through a study of characters and situations....
Anabel
Character:
Young Anabel mistakes a woman for her dead mother....
Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
Character: Juan
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Pasodoble
Character: Diputado
A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatters to force them to leave....
The Deadly Triangle
Character: Andrés Larson
Inspired by "The diabolical" by Clouzot. The life of a woman becomes a sinister nightmare due to the plan drawn up by her husband....
Inquisition
Character: Jean Duprat
Period piece set during the Inquisition about a witch-finder general who falls in love with the village beauty, who has made a pact with the devil to seduce and condemn the man who is killing off Satan's servants....
Father Cami's Wedding
Character: José Lloret
A Jesuit priest in 1950s Spain becomes disillusioned with his faith, swapping religion for politics and carnal knowledge....
Esposa de día, amante de noche
Character: Federico
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Till Divorce Us Do Part
Character: Chus
Miguel is a young Spanish naval engineer in love with an American student of History of Art. When she becomes pregnant, she decides that the easiest solution to her situation is to marry her civilly. However, in Spain in the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Divorce Law, the only way to do so is to apostatize the Catholic Church. For Miguel, a believing devotee, taking this step involves a deep inner conflict....
La campanada
Character: Ambros
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Trail of Death
Character:
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein....
Madres solteras
Character:
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Day of the Assassin
Character: Vasilenko
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean....
Una familia decente
Character: Juan Salcedo
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El apartamento de la tentación
Character: Alberto
Juliet and Alberto are a marriage in which peace reigns home. Mood surely be upset if Juliet suspecte that her her husband uses the vet who runs to assist clients instead of animals....
Stress Is Three
Character: Antonio
Set in one-day, three people embark together on a car trip from Madrid to Almeria. Antonio (Cebrián) is a successful industrialist, however he is dismayed that his personal life does not reflect his glittering career. He is insecure about his faltering marriage to Teresa (Chaplin), whom he believes is having an affair with his best friend, Antonio (Galiardo)....
Rafael Azcona
Character: Self
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Coqueluche
Character:
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Komm mit zur blauen Adria
Character:
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Martes de Carnaval
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Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays written by their admired Valle-Inclán whose works are banned by a Government Law. One day, they find a piece of The Daughter of the Captain, a portrait of the crazy soldiers who returned home after losing the Spanish Colonies. In other occasion, they attend one of the limited performances of Valle-Inclán’s:The deceiving Mr. Friolera. They are just longing f...
Lucecita
Character:
An innocent girl arrives as a domestic in a house where people are fueled by mutual hatred....
Captain Escalaborns
Character: El Borni
After the death of his parents, Juan goes into an adventure to find Captain Escalaborns to whom he must deliver the map of a treasure to be searched together....
White Sister
Character: Guido
A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse....
El límite del amor
Character: Juan
Manuela and Juan, a young couple who has been married for four years, likes to practice sexual games. As part of that games they want to include Juan's secretary, an old nun, secretly in love with Manuela....
Vestida de novia
Character: Carlos
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Rueda de sospechosos
Character: El Moro
A woman is found murdered in her house the day after a party. The police begins the search for the killer asking questions to all the people that attended the party....
Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella
Character: Gentleman
For this second film in the cult comedy series Torrente takes our fat police officer from Madrid to Marbella in Spain to investigate a villain’s plot to destroy the city with a missile. This James Bond style slapstick comedy became the most successful box-office film in Spanish film history beating out only the first Torrente film....
Moscow Gold
Character: Alberto Tajuña
In an odd destiny coincidence and hospital employee reiceives some important and confident information from a dying old man. He shares it with one friend and both start a crazy and extravangant adventure....
El padre Manolo
Character: Ricardo, el novio de la sobrina de Manolo
Padre Manolo, priest, magician and singer, starts a private investigation on what seems to be a murder......
Everyone Off to Jail
Character: Muñagorri
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers intended....
Lázaro de Tormes
Character: Alcalde
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Pepa Doncel
Character: Gonzalo
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Cristina Guzmán
Character: Jorge
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Snakes and Ladders
Character: Amigo en fiesta de cumpleaños
Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on vacation, the man has an affair with a pretty office worker. The relationship between the two develops slowly before they end up in bed together. Speeded up shots are used effectively to illustrate the thoughts of the characters. Technical aspects and performances are fine and overshadow some uneven editing....
La canción del olvido
Character: Capitán Leonello
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El asesino a sueldo
Character: Inspector
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Hector the Mighty
Character: Paride
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war....
Ho sap el ministre?
Character: Francisco Carmona
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Alone, at Last!
Character: Héctor Lafuente
Arturo is married to Elena and they have four grown children, they are wonderfull but they are still living at home. Arthur is writer and that's a job that requires peace, silence and concentration, something imposible at Arturo's home. His editor convince him to make his children go out from home so Arturo start a kind of "guerrilla war" to make his sons become independent....
Canciones de nuestra vida
Character: Self
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El ladrido
Character: Mauro
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El camino
Character: Mica's Boyfriend
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends....
Doña Rosita la Soltera
Character: Narrator (voice)
At the end of the 19th century, young Rosita and her cousin are engaged to be married, shortly before he has to leave for Cuba....
La taberna fantástica
Character:
After the death of his mother, Rogelio, a wanted man for killing a police officer, meets with a gang of young criminals and friends in the tavern of Luis, located in a Madrid slum. As they're getting drunk, the situation becomes too tense....
Mi querida Elena
Character: Julio
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