El muerto y ser feliz

The third film by Javier Rebollo and screenwriter Lola Mayo returned to the world of solitary protagonist characters in whose silence they hide a tempestuous past. In the case of the role played by José Sacristán: Santos, a dying and hard man who flees from an inevitable end as part of a way of having lived, as a non-stop escape forward.

Undoubtedly, this film is one of Sacristán's performances that best exemplifies the versatility with which he understands acting.

Synopsis: Buenos Aires. On the last floor of a hospital, a Spaniard who has spent half his life in Argentina realizes that he is dying. This old hitman - dry, funny and tender - escapes with a happy shipment of morphine, and sets out on a journey north, to nowhere. A girl he meets on the road will be his faithful squire.