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Días contados
Theatrical release poster
Directed byImanol Uribe
Screenplay byImanol Uribe
Based onDías contados
byJuan Madrid
Produced by
  • Imanol Uribe
  • Andrés Santana
Starring
CinematographyJavier Aguirresarobe
Edited byTeresa Font
Music byJosé Nieto
Production
companies
  • Aiete Films
  • Ariane Films
Distributed byUnited International Pictures
Release date
  • 6 October 1994(1994-10-06)
Running time
93 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Días contados(English title:Running Out of Time;literally:Numbered Days) is a 1994 Spanishthriller filmdirected and written byImanol Uribe.It featuresCarmelo Gómez,Ruth Gabriel,Candela Peña,andJavier Bardem,among others. It is based on the novel of the same name byJuan Madrid.[1]

Plot

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Antonio, a brazen, individualisticETAterrorist, travels with two fellow cell members, Carlos and Lourdes toMadrid,where they intend to carry out aterrorist attackon a police station. Just like Lourdes, with whom he shares a complex romantic liaison, Antonio is caught in a downward spiral of disenchantment and despondency with respect to the organization and the life he has led so far.

He moves into the area under the guise of an unassuming photographer for thepress,and finds himself falling for his neighbor, Charo, a naive prostitute with an impending drug problem who is unaware of Antonio's activities. She reciprocates, and Antonio uses her whimsical desire to have their first tryst inGranadaas an excuse to flee Madrid right after he shoots a police officer. Meanwhile, matters become complicated when Antonio's identity as a terrorist is made public and Charo's sleazy, drug-addicted acquaintance Lisardo, incidentally aninformant,gives Antonio's identity away to corrupt police officer Rafa.

The film ends on a tragic note as thecar bomb(containing 100 kg of explosives) and the police car carrying Charo haplessly converge in front of the police station. Fuelled by his love, a self-destructive streak, or both, Antonio follows the car to the station gate right as Carlos presses the detonator.

Cast

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Production

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The film is an Aiete Films and Ariane Films production.[5]Ruth Gabrielwas barely eighteen years old at the time of filming. The film argument justified several nudes scenes of the very young actress, who insisted while filming them so that none of the crew members were absent, in order to give the sequences the greatest naturalness.[6]

Reception

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Días contadoswas nominated forGoya Awardsin 19 categories and won for the following:

See also

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References

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  1. ^abBarrenetxea Marañón 2019,p. 331.
  2. ^abcdefSchwartz 2008,p. 118.
  3. ^Schwartz, Ronald (2008).Great Spanish Films Since 1950.The Scarecrow Press, Inc.p. 118.ISBN978-0-8108-5405-5.
  4. ^Barrenetxea Marañón, Igor (2019)."Días contados(1994), de Imanol Uribe. Desmitificando el terrorismo de ETA "(PDF).In Navajas Zubeldia, Carlos; Iturriaga Barco, Diego (eds.).El reinado de Juan Carlos I (1975-2014): Actas del VI Congreso International de Historia de Nuestro TIempo.Logroño:Universidad de La Rioja.p. 331.
  5. ^"Días contados".Madrid Film Office.Madrid Destino Cultura Turismo y Negocio S.A.Retrieved16 November2022.
  6. ^"El desnudo de Ruth Gabriel que revolucionó la España de los 90".libertaddigital.17 March 2019.Retrieved26 February2022.
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