12 Hours

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12 Horas
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Film poster
Directed byRaúl Marchand Sánchez
Written byRaúl Marchand Sánchez
Produced byElba Luis Lugo
Jorge Rojas Buscaglia
Starring Charlie Masso
Cielomar Cuevas
Marcos Betancourt
Michelle Deliz
Wanda Rovira
Music byGeronimo Mercado
Distributed byManhattan Pictures International
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
89 minutes
LanguageSpanish

12 Hours (Spanish: 12 Horas) is a 2001 Puerto Rican movie. It was written and directed by Raúl Marchand Sánchez, and marked both his screenwriting and directorial debut. [1]

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The movie follows 12 hours or one night in the life of a taxi driver and other characters in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

It had a six-week run in Puerto Rican cinemas. Its profanity and sexual content were a definite deviation from the norm as far Puerto Rican films up to that time.

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References

  1. Getino, O. (2007). Cine iberoamericano: los desafíos del nuevo siglo (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales. ISBN   978-987-9355-41-1 . Retrieved 2020-07-22.