After finding an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, real estate agent Julia must face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants of the apartment building, who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the money.
Acting
Carmen Maura's perfectly desperate everywoman
Direction
Álex de la Iglesia's controlled visual madness
Production
The apartment building becomes a character itself
Director
Álex de la Iglesia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Álex de la Iglesia filmed in a genuine Madrid apartment block, using real residents as extras in crowd scenes.
The film satirizes Spain's late-Franco housing crisis and lingering class tensions, with neighbors representing collapsed social contracts.
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