Murder in the Central Committee

Murder in the Central Committee
Asesinato en el Comité Central

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Produced by José Antonio Perez Giner
Carlos Durán
Written by Pedro Carvjal
Vicente Aranda
Starring Patxi Andión
Victoria Abril
Conrado San Martín
Héctor Alterio
Cinematography José Luis Alcaine
Editing by Teresa Font
Distributed by Morgana Films
Release date(s) Spain August 16, 1982
Running time 110 minutes
Country Spain
Language Spanish

Murder in the Central Committee (Spanish: Asesinato en el Comité Central) is a 1982 Spanish Film directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Patxi Andión and Victoria Abril. The film was based on a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It is a thriller with ironic political overtones.

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Plot

When the lights go off at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, no one suspects anything more than the usual power outage -- until the Secretary General, Santiago Carrillo, ends up murdered in that short span of time. The party calls in a private investigator, and the government asks a rabid anti-communist to find out who committed this crime. From that point onward, the KGB and the CIA are somehow involved, and the climate degenerates into one of torture and sex. As the private investigator bumbles his way from one predicament to the other, the solution to the crime seems in no danger of immediate discovery.

Cast

  • Patxi Andión ... Pepe Carvalho
  • Victoria Abril ... Carmela
  • Conrado San Martín ... Santos
  • Jose Vivo ...Fonseca
  • Jose Carlos Plaza... Perez Montesa
  • Jose Cerro ... Esparza Julve

Bibliography

External links

v · d · eThe films of Vicente Aranda
1960s
Brillante Porvenir (1964) • Fata Morgana (1965) • The Exquisite Cadaver (1969)
1970s
1980s
Girl with the Golden Panties (1980) • Murder in the Central Committee (1982) • Fanny Strawhair (1984) • Captain Sánchez’s Crime (1984) • Time of Silence (1986) • El Lute: Run for Your Life (1987) • El Lute II: Tomorrow I’ll be Free (1988) • If They Tell You I Fell (1989)
1990s
Riders of the Dawn (1990) • Lovers (1991) • The Bilingual Lover (1993) • Intruder (1993) • The Turkish Passion (1994) • Libertarias (1996) • The Naked Eye (1998) • Jealousy (1999)
2000s
Mad Love (2001) • Carmen (2003) • The Maidens' Conspiracy (2006) • Lolita's Club (2007) • Luna Caliente (2009)

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