CUBA · 1947
El faquir
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
deception and fraud
cultural skepticism
greed and materialism
spiritual charlatanism
clash between tradition and modernity
Synopsis
The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.
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