- Intacto
Infobox_Film
name = Intacto
imdb_id = 0220580
writer =Juan Carlos Fresnadillo ,Andrés M. Koppel
starring =Leonardo Sbaraglia Eusebio Poncela Mónica López Antonio Dechent Max von Sydow
director =Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
music =Lucio Godoy
distributor =
released =2000
runtime = 108 minutes
country =Spain
language = Spanish
English|"Intacto" is a
film thriller first released in2000 , directed byJuan Carlos Fresnadillo .It stars
Leonardo Sbaraglia ,Eusebio Poncela ,Mónica López ,Antonio Dechent , andMax von Sydow .The film depicts an underground trade in luck; where fortune flows from those who have less to those who have more. Rooted in
magical realism , the premise purports that luck can be amassed and transferred as any other commodity.The story follows several participants as they engage in literal games of chance, each one more risky than the last to eliminate the unlucky. The early rounds are quite simple (which one will a moth land upon, for example), yet as the tournaments continue they become more hazardous.
Plot
A concentration camp survivor named Sam (Max von Sydow), a preternaturally lucky fellow, runs an underground casino. One of his workers is Frederico (Eusebio Poncela), a man who "steals" other people's luck merely by laying a hand on them. When Sam has a fall out with Frederico and takes away his powers, Frederico sets out to find the luckiest man alive (Leonardo Sbaraglia), the lone survivor of a plane crash, in order to use his powers to overpower Sam in the one game he has never lost:
Russian roulette using a six-shooter filled with five bullets. Frederico takes his partner through a series of tests in order to confirm his abilities, and approach the tightening circle of underground chance games that will eventually lead them both and a female cop on their heels to a final showdown with Sam.External links
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