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El gran calavera
SPAIN · 1949

El gran calavera

Luis Buñuel
family deception wealth and excess behavioral reform class and privilege inheritance and fortune
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Synopsis

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

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