Nine Queens
- Ricardo Darín Marcos
- Gastón Pauls: Juan / Sebastian
- Leticia Bredice: Valeria
The Nine Queens ( TV title ), Nine Queens ( DVD title ) or Nueve reinas (AKA) is an Argentine comedy about two swindlers who received a lot of attention, especially in the home country. The film belongs to the genre of heist movies.
Action
The film begins in the morning with the fraudster Juan, who wants to pull off a very old trick in a gas station market, but is caught. Marcos also a cheater, but not a beginner like Juan, pretends to be a cop and saves Juan thus outside the prison. Marcos offers Juan, long for a day to help him a little bit and show him new tricks. Juan tells Marcos that he ( who had the same value at this time, see Argentine Peso ) for his father quickly 70.000 pesos or dollars needs and lacks even 20,000.
After a few minor ripoffs for Juan far more successful than normal, Marcos gets a call from his sister Valeria. She calls him into the hotel where she works, because a former Marcos "colleagues" had a nervous breakdown and needs help. Marcos had cheated his sister and his younger brother Federico few years ago to the inheritance of the Italian grandparents, why Valeria is very angry at him.
From Marcos sick colleagues Sandler Juan and Marcos learn that the hotel until the next day lodges a wealthy Spaniard who is a stamp collector. Sandler had to give him a forgery of a valuable stamp set for sale, which is owned by his sister, but was prevented by the collapse. So he commissioned Marcos to realize the business, and are ultimately a small part of the money happy. It succeeds Juan and Marcos actually to arouse the interest of the Spaniard; this promises them $ 450,000 for the fraudulent - far more than the scammers hoped.
On the way back the suitcase with fake stamps but is stolen by two thieves. The crooks decide to make the most of the event and to purchase the genuine stamps, which still owns the sister of Sandler. You buy the brands finally for $ 250,000, for which both combine their savings, and Juan Marcos 200,000 50,000. After they meet again at the hotel on the Spaniards, this provides for the purchase of brands an additional condition: Marcos ' sister to spend the night with him. She agrees on the condition that he admits the younger brother to have cheated him out of his inheritance.
The next morning, Valeria and Juan Marcos brings the money in the form of a certified check. When they want to cash the check, the bank from which the check was certified, but left shortly before bankruptcy, so this has become worthless. Juan leaves the angry Marcos left alone and continues with the metro in an industrial area. There turns out that the "business" with the stamps was a conspiracy against Marcos, Juan and Valeria for a year are a pair of them was the impending bankruptcy of the bank previously known and almost everyone involved - including Sandler, the " Spaniard " and the owner of the Stamps - were accomplices to cheat Marcos to the $ 200,000 deposited by him for the purchase of stamps.
Background
Of 2004, producer Steven Soderbergh and director Gregory Jacobs a remake under the title Criminal with Richard Gaddis, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal in the lead roles, but the flopped.
Awards
Nueve Reinas won seven awards from the Association of Argentine Film Critics.