A Spanish politician whose high-class lifestyle is based on nefarious and illegal business threatens to break his entire party after a newspaper expose him to the public eye.
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| Antonio de la Torre | ... | Manuel | |
| Mónica López | ... | Inés | |
| Josep Maria Pou | ... | Frías (as José María Pou) | |
| Bárbara Lennie | ... | Amaia Marín | |
| Nacho Fresneda | ... | Paco | |
| Ana Wagener | ... | La Ceballos | |
| Luis Zahera | ... | Cabrera | |
| Francisco Reyes | ... | Alvarado | |
| María de Nati | ... | Nati | |
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David Lorente | ... | Gallardo |
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Paco Revilla | ... | Fernando |
| Sonia Almarcha | ... | Susana | |
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Andrés Lima | ... | Bermejo |
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Óscar de la Fuente | ... | Pareja |
| Laia Manzanares | ... | Lucía | |
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2007. Manuel López-Vidal is a veteran Spanish politician and the right-hand of Frías, autonomous community's president (working as member of Spain's governing party), who he has an upper high-class lifestyle with his wife Inés and his teen daughter Nati. But behind of his long carrier and the respect of his party's partners and friends as Cabrera, Bermejo, Gallardo and Fernando, truth is totally different: Manuel is a crooked and corrupt man who since many years ago uses his politic position together his friends deviating foreign aids and getting money by means of any illegal way. When Gallardo is arrested accused of fraud and politic corruption, Manuel warms all his friends about to keep silence hoping that the police forgets the case by not founding new evidences. But when it's revealed in the newspapers that himself has been recorded in personal conversations talking about it, the fictional world of respect and honor created by Manuel falls down. With the elections closing the next... Written by Chockys
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28 September 2018 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Domenico Modugno (as D. Modugno) and Domenico Modugno (as F. Migliacci)
Performed by Gipsy Kings
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Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)Written by Domenico Modugno (as D. Modugno) and Domenico Modugno (as F. Migliacci)
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What an unbelievable actor is Antonio de la Torre! He has such a natural way of acting. The film itself was fantastic too.