Cell 211

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Goya Award to Best Film in 2010.

Juan is a prison officer who arrives one day before his official starting date at his new destination. Upon arrival he suffers an accident just before a prison mutiny breaks out in the most dangerous sector of the prison, the FIES. His colleagues look after themselves and leave his fainted body in cell 211. When he wakes up he takes in what has happened and pretends to be a prisoner himself.

Daniel Monzón was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1968. Before working as a director he was a film journalist and critic in newspapers and the radio. He also worked for Spanish public television as assistant director in the programme “Días de cine”.  In 2000 he directed his first film, “Heart of the Warrior”, for which he was nominated for a Goya award in the new director category. Then he directed “The Biggest Robbery Never Told” (2002) and “The Kovak Box” (2007), a thriller for which he won the Audience Award at the Lund Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden).  

Fit for viewing by persons aged 18 years+