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Perdido por perdido is a film directed by Alberto Lecchi with Ricardo Darín
Perdido por perdido (1993)
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Add to a movie listPerdido por perdido (English: Lost for Lost) is an Argentine 1993 thriller directed by Alberto Lecchi and starring Ricardo Darín, Enrique Pinti and Carolina Papaleo.
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Vidal (Darín) is about to be bankrupt, so he sets up a fake car robbery with a small-time mobster to collect insurance and split the money. But his perfect plan becomes entangled by his increasingly dangerous ties to the mob and the meddling of a rogue insurance investigator (Pinti), who eventually strikes a deal with Vidal and decides to team up with him and his wife (Papaleo) to bring down the mob and expose the corruption that links a high-ranking executive to the mafia.Actors
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