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El sue ño de la maestra
SPAIN · 2002

El sue ño de la maestra

Luis García Berlanga
deception and fraud cultural clash materialism faith and spirituality village life
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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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