Dying Beyond Their Means

Sep 25, 2014

1h 42m

★ 5.3

Overview

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Ministerio de Cultura España

Versus Entertainment

Sentido Films

TVE

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Cast

Miguel

Raúl Arévalo

Gerardo

Imanol Arias

Iván

Iván Telefunken

Negociador

Àlex Brendemühl

Banquero

Josep Maria Pou

Albert

Albert Pla

Negociadora

Bárbara Lennie

El Jefe

Sergi López

Ana

Emma Suárez

Antonio

Luis Tosar

Jordi

Jordi Vilches

Hombre digno

José Sacristán

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