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The Longest Penalty Shot in the World

The Longest Penalty Shot in the World

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 8, 2005

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

52%

Original Title

El penalti más largo del mundo

Production Companies

Canal+ España, Tornasol Films, Ensueño Films S.L, Forta, Atresmedia

Director

Roberto Santiago

Revenue

$5,138,329

Description

Fernando (Fernando Tejero) is a loser. A gray type, without ambition, that works like bookcases distributor in a supermarket of the quarter. In his free short whiles, he is a substitute keeper of a football team, a third regional one. In all the season he has not played a single minute. But the last Sunday of the league the referee indicates penalty and the regular keeper injures itself. Fernando must occupy the goal for the first time. If penalty scores, the team of the district will proclaim champion. If no, all the effort of a year will not have been worth for anything. When the penalty is just about to be kicked, a group of indignant fans with the referee invades the field and prevents the kick. The competition committee decides that the penalty must play the following Sunday, in the same goal, with same players and the field closed to the public. El Penalti más largo del mundo, (The Longest Penalty Shot in the World) is exactly the history of that week of delay.