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Jarrapellejos
Sign in to saveJarrapellejos is a 1988 Spanish drama film directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico based on the 1914 novel of the same name by Felipe Trigo. Set in La Joya, Extremadura, the plot straddles between the social denunciation and the costumbrista portrait, featuring the misdeeds of local cacique Jarrapellejos.
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4.9Pedro Jarrapellejos is a ladies man who cannot turn the heads of Isabel or her beautiful daughter. When both peasant women are found raped and murdered in a brutal scene, a schoolteacher is falsely accused. Pedro knows his own nephew and his friend participated in the killings, but he uses his considerable influence over the police and courts to intimidate the witnesses into silence.
Cast
- Antonio Ferrandis
- Juan Diego
- Lydia Bosch
- Amparo Larrañaga
- Jose Coronado
- Joaquín Hinojosa as Juan Cidoncha
Themes
- based on novel or book
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Jarrapellejos is a 1988 Spanish drama film directed by Antonio Giménez-Rico based on the 1914 novel of the same name by Felipe Trigo. Set in La Joya, Extremadura, the plot straddles between the social denunciation and the costumbrista portrait, featuring the misdeeds of local cacique Jarrapellejos.
==Cast==
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