SPAIN · 1949

El gran calavera

El gran calavera

family deception wealth and excess behavioral reform class and privilege inheritance and fortune

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.

Year1949

CountrySpain

DirectorLuis Buñuel

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