Magnicidios Poe

Jan 1, 2017

0h 44m

★ 2.0

Any coincidence with reality is a f***ing coincidence

Overview

The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Animation

Production Companies

Made in Hell

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Cast

Himself - Narrator (voice)

Kikol Grau

Himself (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

Himself (archive footage)

Juan Carlos I

Himself (archive footage)

Luis Carrero Blanco

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.

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8.2

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6.1

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Šplhající profesor

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No overview available.

0.0

Aquela Mesma Estação

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No overview available.

6.3

The Marriage of Figaro

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0.0

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6.2

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6.9

Steamboy

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In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

6.0

Bones of Contention

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A history of the political and social repression carried out by the ruthless regime of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco between 1936 and 1975 that focuses on the lives of gays and lesbians during those dark years and the death of the Spanish gay poet Federico García Lorca.

5.2

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