Smoke & Mirrors

Madrid, autumn 1980. A rain-drilled suitcase bursts open in a train toilet, spilling fake passports across black-and-white tiles. An exiled fixer sells himself back to a dictatorship disguised as a democratic ally, fabricating threats to launder arms and lives. A 1970s-style Eurothriller in which identity itself is the ammunition.

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Alberto Rodríguez directed Smoke & Mirrors in 2016. See Alberto Rodríguez's full filmography, where to start with Alberto Rodríguez, or where to go after you've seen everything by Alberto Rodríguez.

Smoke & Mirrors was released in 2016 (ES original-language production), with a runtime of 123 minutes.