Asesinato en el Comité Central
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: Thriller
Year: 1982
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Victoria Abril, Patxi Andión
Murder in the Central Committee (Spanish: Asesinato en el Comité Central) is a 1982 Spanish Film directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Patxi Andión and Victoria Abril. The film was based on a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. It is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
During a meeting in Madrid of the Central Committee of Spain’s Communist Party, there is a brief power outage. The lights are back few seconds later, but in that short span of time the Secretary General, Fernando Garrido, has been killed, stabbed in the chest. The government asks, Fonseca, a rabid anti-communist, to find out who committed this crime. Santos, the interim new leader of the communist party, calls in a private investigator, Pepe Carvalho. Born in Galicia, Carvalho, a bearded witty and cynic hard boiled detective, arrives from Barcelona, where he lives, to take on the case. Carmela, a militant communist, is assigned to work as his driver and assistant. Carvalho meets with Fonseca to exchange ideas about the case in which both are working. They utterly dislike each other since in the past, Fonseca persecuted leftist like Carvalho. Their parallel investigations take different routes. Carvalho first
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