La avispita Ruinasa (1983)
Genre : Comedy
Runtime : 1H 19M
Director : José Luis Merino
Synopsis
Ruinasa is a holding company dedicated to leisure and, why not say, to vice. But these businesses are about to go bankrupt. To avoid this, sincehis prestige is at stake, a company dedicated to protecting various groups of gangsters takes over the holding. However, as they are not specialists in these matters, the company is going even worse and they get together to try to find solutions
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