La avispita Ruinasa

La avispita Ruinasa

1983 · 79 min · ★ 4.0 · Comedy

Ruinasa is a holding company dedicated to leisure and, why not say, to vice. But these businesses are about to go bankrupt. To avoid this, sincehis prestige is at stake, a company dedicated to protecting various groups of gangsters takes over the holding. However, as they are not specialists in these matters, the company is going even worse and they get together to try to find solutions

Directed by José Luis Merino · Written by José Luis Merino

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