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Juan Cobos, José Luis Garci, Antonio Giménez Rico, Miguel Marías, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, “Berlanga: Perversiones de un soñador”, Nickel Odeon , 3, Summer , pp. 36-150
SPAIN · 1996

Juan Cobos, José Luis Garci, Antonio Giménez Rico, Miguel Marías, Eduardo Torres-Dulce, “Berlanga: Perversiones de un soñador”, Nickel Odeon , 3, Summer , pp. 36-150

Luis García Berlanga
deception and fraud spiritual exploitation cultural clash greed and materialism village superstition
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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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