One florist, three wreaths, zero chill — Spain's most unhinged fourteen-year-old employee.
A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."
Direction
Mercero's perfect comic timing in every mishap.
Production
1960s Madrid locations frozen in satirical amber.
Director
Antonio Mercero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made under Franco, this subversive comedy smuggled class critique past censors through slapstick.
Mercero later became Spain's most beloved TV director; this was his rare theatrical feature.
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