Una novia en Nueva York

Una novia en Nueva York

1988 · 9 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy, Drama, Documentary

In the autumn of a life that has treated him very badly, Rogerio Rázuri, an old Lima boxer, merchant marine, film actor, and debt collector for a film production company, writes to a New York marriage agency in order to ask for a millionaire wife who can finance his invention: water skis "to walk on the water as if he were Jesus Christ" and with it earn a lot of money and thus achieve a more dignified life.

Directed by Gianfranco Annichini

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