Dying Beyond Their Means

Dying Beyond Their Means

2014•1h 42m•5.3/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.3/10(26)

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

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Production

Ministerio de Cultura España, Versus Entertainment, Sentido Films, TVE

Language

ES

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Raúl Arévalo

Raúl Arévalo

Miguel

Imanol Arias

Imanol Arias

Gerardo

Iván Telefunken

Iván

Àlex Brendemühl

Àlex Brendemühl

Negociador

Josep Maria Pou

Josep Maria Pou

Banquero

Albert Pla

Albert Pla

Albert

Bárbara Lennie

Bárbara Lennie

Negociadora

Sergi López

Sergi López

El Jefe

Emma Suárez

Emma Suárez

Ana

Luis Tosar

Luis Tosar

Antonio

Jordi Vilches

Jordi Vilches

Jordi

José Sacristán

José Sacristán

Hombre digno

Àlex Monner

Àlex Monner

Futbolista

Eduard Fernández

Eduard Fernández

Presentador Telediario

Ariadna Gil

Ariadna Gil

Directora del Colegio

Carmen Machi

Carmen Machi

Susana

Ángela Molina

Ángela Molina

Madre de Iván

Maria Lapiedra

Maria Lapiedra

Mujer Láctea

Miguel Noguera

Miguel Noguera

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