Hours of Light

Hours of Light (2004)

Horas de luz

September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape from a police van jumping up. Stopped after two months of robberies and shootings, Garfia leads several prison riots, against which the authorities takes as a measure subjecting prisoners to a more contentious special isolation regime. Garfia, the prisoner with the highest IQ, avoiding drugs, which seems immune to punishment, and lives two years without seeing anyone, held in a tiny cell and subjected to continuous harassment. There he meets Marimar, a nurse I can barely speak, but between both of a current of mutual understanding.

Date of release
2004-09-24
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Manolo Matji

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Turia Awards; Toulouse Spanish Film Festival

Hours of Light aka Light Hours is a 2004 Spanish romance and prison drama film directed by Manolo Matji which stars Alberto San Juan and Emma Suárez.

Production

A Sogecine and La Fiesta production, the film had the participation of TVE, Telemadrid, and Canal+. Shooting began on 2 June 2003 and lasted for 8 weeks. The former Hospital Militar del Generalísimo in Calle de Isaac Peral (Madrid) stood in for indoor prison settings. Some outdoor scenes were shot in Leganés.

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