Fanny Pelopaja
Director: Vicente Aranda
Genre: Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Crime
Year: 1984
Country: Spain, France
Language: Spanish Language, French Language
Starring: Bruno Cremer, Fanny Cottençon
Fanny Strawhair (Spanish: Fanny Pelopaja) (a.k.a: Á coups de Crosse) is a 1984 crime thriller film, directed by Vicente Aranda and starring Fanny Cottençon and Bruno Cremer. The film, a Spanish and French production, was based on the novel Prótesis, written by Andreu Martin. The plot follows an attractive blonde outcast who devises an elaborate plan to avenge the humiliation she suffered at the hands of a policeman who killed her boyfriend and smashed her teeth with the butt of a gun.
Estefania Sánchez, known as Fanny Pelopaja for her bleach blond hair, is a cold-blooded woman who has been recently released from jail after servicing a three year sentence. She has built up a new life for herself working in a gas station. However, she has been waiting all this time to take revenge from a corrupt and brutal police officer, Andrés Gallego. A phone call from one of her old life cronies informs her that Andrés is working in Barcelona as security guard for a car armed company. Without a doubt and in a hurry, Fanny leaves everything behind and take the road back to Barcelona.
A flash back tells the story of Fanny and Andrés three years before. He caught her stealing in a department store
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