Traffic

Traffic
  • Release date: 31 Dec 1998
  • Release year: 1998
  • Runtime: 112 minutes
  • Country: Portugal, France, Denmark
  • Keywords: satire comedy, comic, portuguese cinema, easy money, 1990's, power, auteur cinema, cache, greed, societal hypocrisy
Plot:
Unexpected events occur in a single day: a boy makes his parents rich when he finds the hidden and forbidden treasure of the Earth; two priests close their church for lack of parishioners and put the saints in auction; a banker has auditory hallucinations and a minister has visual hallucinations; an elegant woman organizes a party of red dresses; a general traffics weapons and his wife, works of art, while others revolt to fix the injustices of the world.
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