Giant (2009)

Director
Adrián Biniez

Main cast
Leonor Svarcas; Horacio Camandulle; Nestor Guzzini

Genres
Drama, Romance

Description
A chronicle of a supermarket security guard's obsession with a late-shift janitor.


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