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  1. Spain. Language. Spanish. Plácido [ˈplaθiðo] is a 1960 Spanish black comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It was nominated to the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film. [1] It was also entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. [2] In the film, affluent women in a provincial town organize a Christmas campaign of feeding the ...

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    Placido: Directed by Luis García Berlanga. With Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre. In a small Spanish town, a group of old ladies decides to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "seat a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night.

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • Luis García Berlanga
    • 1962-06-27
  3. Synopsis. In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless person to sit down to dinner at their wealthy table. Plácido, a humble worker, is hired by the organizers to participate in a parade with his three-wheeled vehicle, a seemingly simple ...

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    • Cassen
    • Luis García Berlanga
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  5. Plácido es una película dirigida por Luis García Berlanga con Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintilla, Amelia de la Torre .... Año: 1961. Título original: Plácido. Sinopsis: En una pequeña ciudad provinciana, a unas burguesas ociosas se les ocurre la idea de organizar una campaña navideña cuyo lema es: "Siente a un pobre a ...

    • Francisco Sempere (B&W)
    • Luis García Berlanga
    • España
    • Comedia | Pobreza. Navidad. Sátira
  6. Directed by Luis García Berlanga • 1961 • Spain Starring Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá Widely considered one of the greatest works of Spanish cinema, this relentlessly paced satire chronicles an ill-advised charity campaign sweeping across a small industrial town on Christmas Eve. The brainchild of attention-hungry ...

  7. For US ratings information please visit: Placido is a film directed by Luis García Berlanga with Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintilla, Amelia de la Torre .... Year: 1961. Original title: Plácido. Synopsis: In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table ...

  8. Plácido is a sharply-written dark comedy from Spanish auteur Luis García Berlanga. As with his masterpiece, The Executioner, Berlanga's film is tightly paced, and packs more substance than the average comedy. Here, under the surface, he delivers a scathing commentary of classism in Spanish society that rivals the works of Luis Buñuel.