Airbag (1997)

Name: Airbag
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Released: 1997-06-20
Duration: 125 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Karra Elejalde, Alberto San Juan, Karlos Arguiñano, Manuel Manquiña

Airbag (1997), directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, starring Fernando Guillén Cuervo and Karra Elejalde.

06/20/1997 BR Action, Comedy, Crime and Thriller 2h 5m

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Synopsis

A man gets involved in a series of mishaps while frantically searching for his lost wedding ring.

Gonzalo F. BerridiCinematography
Juanma Bajo UlloaDirector, Screenplay
Pablo BlancoEditing
Bingen MendizábalOriginal music

About the film

Airbag is a 1997 Spanish action comedy film directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa. It stars Fernando Guillén Cuervo and Karra Elejalde, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bajo Ulloa, which was based on an original story by Elejalde. Alberto San Juan, Maria de Medeiros, Manuel Manquiña, Karlos Arguiñano, and Luis Cuenca appear in supporting roles.

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Plot

Juantxo is a rich, barely out of school lawyer, who has proposed to the daughter of a rich socialite. While on a stag party with his two best friends, Konra and Pako, he accidentally loses his engagement ring while visiting a prostitute. After leaving the brothel, Juantxo realizes the ring is not on his finger and turns around to recover it only to find out her pimp has taken the ring. In order to find the ring, Juantxo and his friends go looking for Villambrosa, the pimp, at another brothel he owns. While there, Juantxo, Konra and Pako get mistaken for a band of drug couriers that are moving cocaine hidden in car airbags for Souza, another pimp/drug dealer that has a tense business relation with Villambrosa. While there the money and drug exchange goes wrong without notice which sparks a war between the two rival organizations.The friends move on to the next brothel in search of Villambrosa when they get pullover by a cop for speeding and while they are being interrogated, the car’s airbags deploy and explode releasing the cocaine inside the car. From then on the friends embark on a crazy drug induced journey to recoup the ring while being oblivious of the drug war they have accidentally created.

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Production

The film is a Spanish-German-Portuguese co-production by Asegarce Zinema, Marea Films, Road Movies Dritte Produktionen, and MGN Filmes.

Reception

The film was hugely successful in Spain, grossing $609,312 in its first week of release from 131 screens and was in the top 10 for 19 weeks. It was the highest-grossing Spanish film of the year with a gross of 1,152 million Spanish Pesetas.

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Film Awards

Submissions

Goya Awards

Best New Actor for Manuel Manquiña (nominated)

British Independent Film Awards

Best Foreign Independent Film (nominated)

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External links

Airbag at IMDb

Airbag at Rotten Tomatoes

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Trivia

It cost US$ 3.4 million and grossed US$ 8.0 million in theaters — 2.4 times its budget.
It premiered on June 20, 1997, a Friday.
It runs 2h05 — a typical feature length.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosRoad Movies Dritte Produktionen, ARD Degeto, Virgin Vision, MGN Filmes, Marea Films, Asegarce Zinema, Canal+, TVE, EiTB
CountriesFrance, Germany, Portugal, Spain
LanguagesSpanish
BudgetUS$ 3,350,000
Box officeUS$ 8,000,000
StatusReleased