Pre-Production - SPANISH - Thriller - 90 minutes
A mature mob leader decides to rob a drug lord in order to retire forever. But all will go wrong...Adaptation of the Alexis Ravelo's best selling novel. Winner of the Hammett Award 2016.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Elio QUIROGA Writer(s) : David MUÑOZ, Elio QUIROGA, Alexis RAVELO
“El Rubio” stopped his delinquent career years ago, but his wife's serious illness makes him rethink things when Junior, a local cocaine dealer, proposes to dock the front man of his bosses in Gran Canaria.To organize the assault, it will not be difficult to seduce Tito “El Palmera”, a long-term unemployed ex hitman whose dream is to open a bar, and Cora, a luxury prostitute who knows she's close to the time when her charms disappear.The pekinese strategy is to be fierce and to take advantage of any foil of the adversary to attack and to flee. That will be what the protagonists of thismovie do when they discover that they have trodden the tail of a tiger and are immersed in a frantic persecution in which they will leave a bloody trail.Forty-five-year-olds, scandals, narcos, corrupt cops, and money launderers populate this high-voltage noir film, a hard choral story about losers, wherethe important thing is not to know who the killer is.
Country(ies) : SPAIN Financing plan : Television Española, Arena Estudio, Televisión Canaria Start of shooting : March 2018