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Quick Info

Rating

7.4/10

Release2018

Runtime1h 55m

StatusReleased

Budget$3,000,000

Revenue$10,452,324

Production

El Deseo

K & S Films

INCAA

Underground Producciones

Telefe

TVE

Movie

El Angel

2018

1h 55m

7.4

Drama

Crime

Synopsis

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971. Carlos Robledo Puch is a 19-year-old boy with an angelic face, but a vocational thief as well, who acts ruthlessly, without remorse. When he meets Ramón, they follow together a dark path of crime and death.

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