Details

Subject(s)

• Private investigators—Spain—Madrid—Drama [Browse]
• Missing persons—Investigation—Spain—Drama [Browse]
• Spaniards—United States—Drama [Browse]
• Revenge—Drama [Browse]
• Madrid (Spain)—Drama [Browse]

Film director

Garci, José Luis, 1944- [Browse]

Screenwriter

• Garci, José Luis, 1944- [Browse]
• Valcarcel, Horacio [Browse]

Actor

• Landa, Alfredo, 1933-2013 [Browse]
• Casanova, María, 1950- [Browse]
• Tejada, Manuel, 1940-2019 [Browse]
• Rellán, Miguel Angel, 1943- [Browse]
• Fraire, Raúl, 1932-2002 [Browse]
• Bódalo, José, 1916-1985 [Browse]

Production company

Nickel Odeón Dos, S.A. [Browse]

Film distributor

Impala (Firm) [Browse]

Publisher

Impala (Firm) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Feature films [Browse]
• Fiction films [Browse]
• Detective and mystery films [Browse]
• Video recordings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• video recordings (physical artifacts) [Browse]

Summary note

"Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the dark, underbelly of Madrid, he realizes that he is not only one looking for this girl. Someone else is also interested in her, someone powerful and dangerous who will stop at nothing to prevent Areta from knowing the truth."--IMDb, January 3, 2018.

Notes

• Originally released as a motion picture in 1981.
• Latin American and Iberian videos in Princeton University Library.
• Latin American and Iberian videos in Princeton University Library

Creation/​Production credits

Producer, director, José Luis Garci; editor, Miguel G. Sinde; director of photography, Manuel Rojas; screenwriters, J.L. Garci, Horacio Valcárcel; music, Jesús Gluck.

System details

DVD (PAL; region 2/0; stereo; 4:3 presentation.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Alfredo Landa, María Casanova, Manuel Tejada, Miguel Rellán, Raúl Fraire, José Bódalo, Manuel Lorenzo.

OCLC

1020310535

Other standard number

8431804010728

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