To Steal from a Thief
A bank. A safe box. An information that would shake a country. A group of thieves led by a man called El Uruguayo stalk a bank in Valencia to steal as many safety boxes as possible and later flee thro…
To Steal from a Thief
A bank. A safe box. An information that would shake a country. A group of thieves led by a man called El Uruguayo stalk a bank in Valencia to steal as many safety boxes as possible and later flee through a dug tunnel that communicates the building with an abandoned subway station. However, the press officer of the Prime Minister discovers what the thieves are actually after: they want to get their hands on box 314, property of Gonzalo Soriano, a former member of the government who slipped into a coma after a severe accident, left documents with compromising information. The gang's plans start to go awry when the tunnel is flooded by heavy rain, leaving them with no escape, plus to discover that the box really doesn't contains documents, but an external hard drive full of data about important names in all levels of the Spanish politic. At the same time, a fixer of the government receives the mission to assume the control of the negotiations, looking for recover at any cost the box 314 and the information before the robbers flee with it. —Chockys Under the leadership of a man called "El Uruguayo", a group of bank robbers plan the perfect crime: they want to empty the vaults of a bank in Valencia and then disappear unnoticed through an escape tunnel that leads directly into a disused subway station. At first everything seems to go well, but then El Uruguayo and his accomplices Gallego, Loco and Varela run into unforeseen problems: A sudden change in the weather causes the escape tunnel to flood, and the robbers are therefore trapped in the bank together with their hostages. Among these hostages is bank employee Sandra, who has just learned that she is about to lose her job. She therefore decides to make common cause with the bank robbers in order to get some money. Meanwhile, a task force has positioned itself in front of the bank building to negotiate with the hostage-takers in order to save lives. The operation is led by the obscure Mellizo, who wants to stop the bank robbers at all costs. What's more, the bank robber El Uruguayo has concealed something important from his accomplices, which is a major source of tension for the group. —3sat
To Steal from a Thief
Adventure,Crime,Drama
Film Details
A bank. A safe box. An information that would shake a country.
A group of thieves led by a man called El Uruguayo stalk a bank in Valencia to steal as many safety boxes as possible and later flee through a dug tunnel that communicates the building with an abandoned subway station. However, the press officer of the Prime Minister discovers what the thieves are actually after: they want to get their hands on box 314, property of Gonzalo Soriano, a former member of the government who slipped into a coma after a severe accident, left documents with compromising information. The gang's plans start to go awry when the tunnel is flooded by heavy rain, leaving them with no escape, plus to discover that the box really doesn't contains documents, but an external hard drive full of data about important names in all levels of the Spanish politic.
At the same time, a fixer of the government receives the mission to assume the control of the negotiations, looking for recover at any cost the box 314 and the information before the robbers flee with it. —Chockys Under the leadership of a man called "El Uruguayo", a group of bank robbers plan the perfect crime: they want to empty the vaults of a bank in Valencia and then disappear unnoticed through an escape tunnel that leads directly into a disused subway station. At first everything seems to go well, but then El Uruguayo and his accomplices Gallego, Loco and Varela run into unforeseen problems: A sudden change in the weather causes the escape tunnel to flood, and the robbers are therefore trapped in the bank together with their hostages.
Among these hostages is bank employee Sandra, who has just learned that she is about to lose her job. She therefore decides to make common cause with the bank robbers in order to get some money. Meanwhile, a task force has positioned itself in front of the bank building to negotiate with the hostage-takers in order to save lives.
The operation is led by the obscure Mellizo, who wants to stop the bank robbers at all costs. What's more, the bank robber El Uruguayo has concealed something important from his accomplices, which is a major source of tension for the group. —3sat.