A politician's son dies stealing from him—so he stuffs the body in a closet and keeps campaigning. Democracy, baby!
One of the presidential candidates whose main campaign promise to end crime. When a day come back home with his wife, found the lifeless body of her son who had come to steal. The young man was a drug addict, just with what the candidate wants to end. So he decided hide his body until elections are for the matter not to spill his candidacy.
Acting
Jesús Puente's sweaty desperation as the candidate.
Writing
Satire so sharp it probably killed someone.
Direction
Forqué squeezes comedy from genuine horror.
Director
Álvaro Forqué
Jesús Puente
Don Antonio López Terrón
Verónica Forqué
Carmencita
Enrique San Francisco
Pedro
Susana Campos
Odette
José Luis López Vázquez
General Fernando Ordóñez
Luis Ciges
Alfonso
Queta Claver
Angelita
Pedro Rivera
Susana Canales
Mujer de Alfonso
Pilar Bardem
Mujer de Fernando
Maribel Verdú
Prostituta
Luis Barboo
Manuel Brun
Antonio Chamorro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Spain's post-Franco democracy, the film savages political theater when the country was still learning what honest governance looked like.
Verónica Forqué, who plays the unraveling wife, is the director's sister—family tension apparently ran both on and off screen.
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