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2021 | Color | 96:00

In the late 1970s, a group of young cops lead by ex-musician turned detective Vicente Rangel will face the darkest minutes of their lives while attempting to catch a serial killer of young girls in a corrupt oil town in the Gulf of Mexico.


Country: México
Direction: Muñoz; Mario
Script: Solares; Martín, Muñoz; Mario
Production: Muñoz; Mario, Zimbrón; Leonardo, Leyva Becerra-Acosta; Daniela, Vargas; Mónica, O’Farrill; Eamon, Toca; Andrea, Lozano; Mónica
Photography: Barbabosa; Federico
Sound: Greiner; Enrique
Music: Benlliure; Diego, Vergara; Juan Andrés
Cast:Ortizgris; Leonardo, Espinosa; Sofía, Aragón; Carlos, Ferrer; Kristyan, Arreola; Enrique, Isaac; Mauricio
Art direction: Fuentes; Ivonne
Participation year at FICM: 2021

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