Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing(Amanece, que no es poco)
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Spain · 1989
1h 50m
Director José Luis Cuerda
Starring José 'Saza' Sazatornil, Carmen de Lirio, Francisco Martínez, Ovidi Montllor
Genre Comedy
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Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a motorcycle with sidecar to travel together. Father and son arrive in a remote mountain village seems empty, what happens is that all residents are in church every day, because the Mass is a true spectacle. Jimmy and Theodore are discovering the peculiarities of the people, attend the elections held each year to appoint mayor, priest, teacher, bitch ... In addition, the town has come a group of students at the American University of Eaton, a Belgian meteorologists, a dissident group of the Russian Army Choir, invading people's hidden above ...
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