The Tobacconist of Vallecas

IMDb 6.3 1987 • 106 min • ComedyDrama

Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

Country

Plot Summary

Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.