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The Dancer Upstairs is a espagnol film of genre Drama directed by John Malkovich released in USA on 2 may 2003 with Javier Bardem
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
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Add to a movie listThe Dancer Upstairs is a 2002 Spanish-American crime thriller film directed by John Malkovich (in his directorial debut) and starring Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto and Laura Morante. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Nicholas Shakespeare, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Detective Agustín Rejas is tracking the self-styled President Ezequiel, a Marxist-influenced guerrilla waging a brutal terrorist campaign against the corrupt democracy of an unnamed Latin American country. Contrasting with the violence and death in his professional life, Rejas begins to fall for Yolanda - his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher. But she may not be all she appears, and his growing attraction to her brings him in direct conflict with his prey.Actors
Javier Bardem
(Agustín Rejas)
Laura Morante
(Yolanda)
John Malkovich
(Abimael Guzman (uncredited))
Elvira Mínguez
(Llosa)
Alexandra Lencastre
(Sylvina Rejas)
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