Hours of Light (2004)

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Hours of Light on IMDb 6.3/10 213 votes

Released:
2004-09-24

Overview:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.

Director:
Manolo Matji

Runtime:
1h 38min

Genre:
Romance, Drama

  • Cast:
  • Alberto San Juan
    as
    Juan José Garfia
  • Emma Suárez
    as
    Marimar
  • José Ángel Egido
    as
    Chincheta
  • Vicente Romero Sánchez
    as
    Morata
  • Andrés Lima
    as
    Granizo