The Sniper(El francotirador)
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Spain · 1978
1h 33m
Director Carlos Puerto
Starring Paul Naschy, Blanca Estrada, Pep Munné, Elisa Montés
Genre Action
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Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
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