Museum (2018)

Original title

Museo

Directed by

Alonso Ruizpalacios

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

2h 08m

Rated

18+

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 152 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two veterinary students carry out a famous heist at a Mexican museum in 1985. They steal ancient artifacts and then have to manage the consequences.

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What happens

Museum (Spanish: Museo) is a 2018 Mexican drama heist film directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios, and produced and written by Ruizpalacios and Manuel Alcalá. It's based on the true story of the 1985 Christmas Eve robbery of the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City and follows two veterinary students, Juan Núñez (Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris), as they commit the heist, stealing precious Mayan, Mixtec, and Zapotec artifacts, and its aftermath. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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