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The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)

The Night of the Sunflowers poster
Original title
La noche de los girasoles
Directed by
Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
Genre
drama film, crime film, thriller film
Country
France, Portugal, Spain
Runtime
2h 03m
Rated
15
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 66 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime happens in a small rural town and sets off a chain of events between the locals and a few outsiders. The story follows multiple characters as their lives cross paths in the aftermath.

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What happens

The Night of the Sunflowers (Spanish: La noche de los girasoles) is a 2006 rural thriller-drama film directed and written by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo. The cast features Carmelo Gómez, Judith Diakhate, Celso Bugallo, Manuel Morón, Mariano Alameda, Vicente Romero and Walter Vidarte. It is a Spanish-French-Portuguese co-production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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