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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. It was also entered into the 1962 Cannes Film Festival. In the film, affluent women in a provincial town organize a Christmas campaign of feeding the poor.
Venerable Spanish director Luis García Berlanga's hyperbolically frenetic social satire PLACIDO is an Oscar nominee for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM and Palme d'or contestant, and guilefully circumvents the censor of Franco's government by subsuming his trenchant sideswipes into the pandemonium of a farcical dynamo.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Luis García Berlanga
- 1962-06-27
Plácido 1961 1h 30m Comedy List 100% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 96% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A poor trucker gets involved with a charity drive and realizes the woes of other people.
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- Elvira Quintillá
- Luis García Berlanga
- Comedy
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.
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- Cassen
- Luis García Berlanga
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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.
May 4, 2021 · Placido is Luis García Berlanga’s sixth film—he was cranking them out from 1953 (his debut) to 1957 but there is four years off between Miracles of Thursday (1957) and Placido– his strongest work to date. He was met with government censorship issues over the political satirical content.
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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" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person ...You can watch Placido through flatrate on the platforms: Criterion Channel.
