El penalti más largo del mundo (2005)

Director:

Roberto Santiago

Writers:

Roberto Santiago, Osvaldo Soriano (short story)

Stars:

Fernando Tejero, María Botto, Marta Larralde

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Fernando Tejero	...	Fernando
María Botto	...	Ana
Marta Larralde	...	Cecilia
Carlos Kaniowsky	...	Santos
Javier Gutiérrez	...	Rafa
Enrique Villén	...	Adrián
Fernando Cayo	...	Bilbao
Héctor Colomé	...	Rodríguez
Luis Callejo	...	Khaled
Cristina Alcázar	...	Julia
Benito Sagredo	...	Román
Josean Bengoetxea
Adrián Portugal
Chani Martín	...	Arbitro
Alejandro Casaseca	...	Numero 11

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

trainer | doorman | football

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

9 March 2005 (Spain)

Also Known As:

The Longest Penalty Shot in the World

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$754,245 (Spain) (25 March 2005)

Gross:

$4,227,246 (Europe) (1 April 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ensueño Films, Tornasol Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

While Fernando Tejero was training to stop the goal, he had to go to hospital because his kidney was bleeding.

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Connections

Follows Il rigore più lungo del mondo (2004)

User Reviews

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"El penalti más largo del mundo" is a good comedy about amateur football in Spain. I think this movie is very original and has a great sense of humor. Football as an issue to a movie is not very common, but in this particular case it works very well, because it's just the "setting" to a great comedy about human relationships…

Fernando (played by Fernando Tejero) is a perfect loser. He's the second goalkeeper of a local team but he has never played before, just because he can't play! He just doesn't know how to keep the ball from the net! Suddenly he has an impossible mission: to defend a penalty! The football field is invaded by the public and the referee delays the penalty to the next week… The plot is about that week and the "adventures" of the "poor devil" Fernando training to stop the penalty.

The movie is very funny, hilarious at parts, believe me. I don't know how to explain it very well, but one of the features that made me laugh the most was, beside the funny scenes, the Castilian slang used in this movie. I really don't know why but I find the Spanish language a little bit funny (in a good way…) by itself, and some of the slang used turned it even more comic. Please don't get me wrong but it really made me like this movie even more, and feel, on the other hand, that it seems that just the European cinema (the French, Spanish, Italian…) can make some great comedies made out of the most common issues of our everyday life. I think the European comedies have something special, a different touch, a different way to manage some issues that give them a very particular sense of humor. They're very simple; they transform the most common circumstances in graceful hilarious moments; and they don't need any "special effects" to make you laugh, because they are real, humanistic, and have no exacerbations! I've felt this before with some French movies and now I feel it again in this good Spanish comedy…

Very nice movie!