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Juan of the Dead (2011)

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Original title
Juan de los muertos
Directed by
Alejandro Brugués
Genre
comedy horror, zombie comedy
Country
Cuba, Spain
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 297 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In Havana, a lazy slacker and his friends decide to start a business killing zombies for cash. But they soon discover that saving their families and surviving might not be so simple.

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What happens

Juan of the Dead (Spanish: Juan de los Muertos) is a 2011 Spanish-Cuban zombie comedy film written and directed by Alejandro Brugués. A Spanish-Cuban co-production between La Zanfoña Producciones (Spain) and Producciones de la 5ta Avenida (Cuba) involving the participation of the ICAIC, Canal Sur and Televisión Española, the film won the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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