A Perfect Day

A Perfect Day

R 2015 · 106 min · ★ 6.7 · Comedy, Drama, War

Somewhere in the Balkans, 1995. A team of aid workers must solve an apparently simple problem in an almost completely pacified territory that has been devastated by a cruel war, but some of the local inhabitants, the retreating combatants, the UN forces, many cows and an absurd bureaucracy will not cease to put obstacles in their way.

Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa · Written by Fernando León de Aranoa

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