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La ciudad no es para mí (1966)

La ciudad no es para mí poster
Directed by
Pedro Lazaga
Genre
comedy film
Country
Spain
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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An elderly widower from a small village moves to Madrid to live with his son and daughter-in-law. He struggles to adapt to city life and its modern ways.

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What happens

La ciudad no es para mí (transl. City is not for me) is a 1966 Spanish comedy film directed by Pedro Lazaga and based on the play of the same name by Fernando Lázaro Carreter published under the pen name Fernando Ángel Lozano. It stars Paco Martínez Soria as Agustín Valverde, an old widower peasant from the Aragonese village of Calacierva who decides to go to Madrid to live with his son and daughter-in-law. It was the highest-grossing Spanish film between 1965 and 1968 with 65,645,694 pesetas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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