Dying Beyond Their Means

Dying Beyond Their Means

2014 · 102 min · ★ 5.3 · Comedy

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.

Directed by Isaki Lacuesta · Written by Isaki Lacuesta

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