Etiqueta: Economic crisis
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The Loan (El crédito) (TV Movie)
Available on TVE A la carta Loan me 3000 euros, or I’ll sleep with your wife. In our civilized world, when you need money you go to the bank and ask for a loan. If they don’t grant it to you, you turn around and go back home, sad, thinking things are bad… or not. Maybe…
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Don’t call home (No llames a casa)
When blackmail backfires. Bruno, Raquel and Cristian are an atypical trio. They are three hustlers, consumers of drugs and alcohol, and bar crawlers. Now, they seem to have found the business that will get them out of their misery: attending brothels to blackmail wealthy men who go there to be unfaithful to…
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The outside world (El mundo de afuera)
How to turn a fairy tale into a story of monsters The outside world takes place in Medellin. There, the time comes wrapped in a haze, and the voices seem whistles that are lost between the branches. A kind of castle can be glimpsed in the leafy outskirts and through the door runs a blonde…
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Back to Front (De atrás para adelante)
The Goldberg family is going through an economic crisis, their factory and house have been seized. All that Simon Goldberg, the patriarch, has built is now reduced to nothing. In this situation, his daughter Mariana asks her brother Javier for help. Javier was kicked out of the family years ago, for his sexual orientation, and…
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Don Juan’s insanity (La locura de Don Juan)
Don Juan's insanity is the story of a man, head of a family, who decides to pretend insanity in order to put a stop to his family’s wasteful and excessive spending. This will lead into a series of hilarious situations and misunderstandings. It has a very good potential to be turned into a sitcom. THEMES: Money,…
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The prize of Nicanor (El premio de Nicanor)
A few days before Christmas holidays, in a humble home, the day of the Christmas lottery, Isidoro and his wife get into a serious conflict with their neighbors because of the lottery. THEMES: Power struggle, Ambition, Friendship, Social Climbing, Jealousy, Social Class, High Class, Lower Class, Competition, Conspiracy, Inequality, Destiny, Money, Family, Manipulation, Marriage,…
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No offence, Beatrix (No te ofendas, Beatriz)
Beatrix and Javier are a couple that does not love each other. In the spring of her youth, Beatrix’ parents make her get married to a broke aristocrat. It is a convenience marriage, organized by their respective high-class families (one of them completely broke). Javier and Beatrix, friends since childhood and pressured by their parents, have to…
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High Fidelity (Alta fidelidad)
The play tells the story of the change in fortune suffered by Fernando, who was master and lord; due to fiscal debts, he turns into servant. At the same time, Timoteo, his former assistant, starts to be master himself. Fernando’s girlfriend, Elvira, in pure monetary interest, turns her attention to Suárez, the tax collector. …
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The arrival of the barbarians (La llegada de los bárbaros)
A security guard finds a man sitting on a bench on the street. The guard must prevent anyone from sitting there, but the man who is sat there is a Latin professor who has lost his job, wife and house, and considers that bench where he is resting the only thing he has in his…
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The last somersault (La última pirueta)
A peculiar little circus is bankrupt and in the process of seizure when a new recruit shows up: Flofli, the clown, coming from France where he is a very renowned character. All the circus’ hopes fall on his shoulders. But the adventures and difficulties to keep going will not be few, with a romantic love…
