Four families intend to buy a flat. In one of them, Margarita wants to marry Ernesto, despite his reluctance. The purchase of the flat is a great inconvenience and he uses this to delay the wedding as much as possible.
Acting
Concha Velasco's frantic energy versus López Vázquez's masterful cowardice.
Writing
Ozores' surgical precision in escalating domestic absurdity.
Director
Mariano Ozores Puchol
Concha Velasco
Margarita (as Conchita Velasco)
José Luis López Vázquez
Lorenzo
María Asquerino
Emilia
Antonio Ozores
Federico Nogués
Laly Soldevila
Ana
Florinda Chico
Doña Loreto
Rafaela Aparicio
Antonia de Rojas
Julia Caba Alba
José «Saza» Sazatornil
Don Julio
Pedro Osinaga
Ernesto Cifuentes
María Kosty
Carlota
Manolo Otero
Miguel
María Isbert
Enriqueta (as Maruja Isbert)
Álvaro de Luna
Julio 'Sansón' Gutiérrez Vizcaino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Franco-era Spanish comedy used housing crises as coded social commentary—this satirizes the aspirational middle class desperate to appear wealthier than they were.
Ozores and Velasco were a beloved screen pair who made over a dozen films together; their antagonistic chemistry here was reportedly exhausting on set.
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