Anita Takes a Chance

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Anita no pierde el tren
Directed by Ventura Pons
Written byVentura Pons
Lluís-Anton Baulenas
Produced byVentura Pons
Starring Rosa Maria Sardà
José Coronado
María Barranco
Production
companies
Els Films de la Rambla, S.A.
Distributed byLauren Films
Release date
  • 26 January 2001 (2001-01-26)(Spain)
Running time
89 minutes
CountrySpain
Languages
  • Catalan
  • Spanish

Anita Takes a Chance (Spanish: Anita no pierde el tren, Catalan: Anita no perd el tren) is a 2001 film directed and co-written by Ventura Pons.

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Plot

Anita loses her lifetime job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theatre to build a new multiplex theatre. She continues going to the cinema place where she befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and she falls in love. [1]

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References

  1. "Anita no pierde el tren (2001)".