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Eduardo Noriega, Fernando Cayo, Jorge Sanz, José Coronado, Juan Fernández XIII ...( see more  see more... ) , Manuel Zarzo , Mikel Lejarza , Mélanie Doutey , Patrick Bruel , Santiago Ramos , Silvia Abascal

In the 70's, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The Secret Servic...( read more  read more... )e decides to use him to infiltrate the ETA terrorist band. They try to offer him a deal. Financial problems force him to take their money and accept the mission. He adopts the undercover name of "Lobo" (Wolf) and becomes an active member of the band and acquires the trust of its leaders. He discovers that the group has deep internal divisions between those who want to abandon the armed fight and become just a political party, and those who want to keep the terrorist activity until they can proclaim their independence. After the band carries out their most daring and shocking crime yet, killing the prime minister, Carrero Blanco, the military heads in Madrid launch an immediate attack on ETA. Ricardo, the chief of the secret service, convinces them to wait until Lobo can complete his mission and enable them to dismantle the band. But when the Barcelona police manage to catch the leader of the band, the generals, jealous of this success, decide they can't wait any more and that they will override the secret service and catch whatever ETA members are in Madrid at that point, including Lobo, who is now left to his own devices to escape from both sides.

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R, 2 hrs. 3 min.

Directed by: Miguel Courtois

Release Date: November 5, 2004

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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008

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  • benjaminguilbert2
    February 3, 2008
    benjaminguilbert2
    European thrillers (the good ones that is) have something for themselves: they leave a unique taste in the mouth at the end when the light comes back. This one is no exception. It is incredibly suspenseful mostly because each character is so well constructed. Then the setting in ...( read more)1970s/80s Spain makes it somewhat exotic?¦ I loved it, it is everything Munich wanted to be and even more.
  • linkiniana
    November 20, 2007
    linkiniana
    I want to see it. It must be really interesting.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    October 23, 2007
    MovieGuruDude72
    Any movie that romanticizes terrorism deserves to be crapped on.
  • ArIaDnA81
    October 21, 2007
    ArIaDnA81
    me encanto!!menos mal que españa ha cambiado!lo suficiente para poder hacer una pelicula donde nos critiquemos a nosotros mismos....y asi poder mejorar....
    no como hacen otros....la autocritica es buena y puede ser muy fructifera
  • PAOPSIFILO
    April 7, 2007
    PAOPSIFILO
    este tipo me encanta es muy buen actor, esta es una referencia la ETA
  • nelcorreia
    April 1, 2007
    nelcorreia
    good one!!
    intence one too.

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