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Los jueves, milagro (1957)

Los jueves, milagro poster
Directed by
Luis García Berlanga
Genre
comedy film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A small village in Spain fakes a miracle to attract tourists. The plan backfires in unexpected ways.

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What happens

Los jueves, milagro (transl. "On Thursday, miracle") is a 1957 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. The movie is about people in a small village of Spain who decide to fake a miracle in order to increase tourism but things don't go as planned. Most shots of the film were made in Alhama de Aragón, Zaragoza. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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