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El Crack is a film of genre Drama directed by José Luis Garci released in USA on 26 march 1981 with Alfredo Landa
El Crack (1981)
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Add to a movie listEl Crack (English: The Crack) is a 1981 Spanish film drama co-written and directed by José Luis Garci, starring Alfredo Landa. José Luis Garci won the Oscar to Best Foreign picture the next year with his next film "Volver a Empezar" ("Begin The Beguine"), the first Oscar won by Spanish cinema. The plot was inspired by the novels written by Dashiell Hammett, to whom the film is dedicated. It is a detective film and basically a Spanish film noir.
Synopsis
The whole story takes place in Madrid, Spain and New York in December 1980. Germán Areta is a 43-year-old private detective in Madrid. He previously spent 12 years as a Police Detective and now has his own Private Eye agency solving mostly "routine" cases like marital infidelities, working absences, minor celebrity-related information and other matters. Along with him works his employee and "jack-of-all-trades" Cárdenas, (nicknamed El Moro), a chatty and funny man and former car thief, once arrested and after that freed by Germán while he was in the Police. Moro is German's main connection with the underworld and night life.Actors
Alfredo Landa
(Areta)
Manuel Lozano
José Bódalo
(El Abuelo)
Maite Blasco
(Merche)
José Luis Merino
(Meri)
Elmer Modlin
(Newyorker (uncredited))
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