2007
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Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
Jacobo Morales
Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and author born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
. It was produced by Cinesí Productions.
Plot
The film follows the actions of a corrupt police captain, the title-character Ángel Lugo, performed by
Braulio Castillo, hijo
Braulio Castillo Jr. (born August 30, 1958) is a Puerto Rican actor and radio host. He is the son of Braulio Castillo, an actor across Latin America, and the brother of the lesser known Jorge Castillo, also a television and theater actor.
Biogra ...
. Lugo is responsible for the wrongful
imprisonment
Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority. In the latter case it is considered " false imprisonment". Impri ...
of Mariano Farías (Morales) and the murder of his
pregnant
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Conception (biology), Conception usually occurs ...
wife (Sara Jarque).
After 15 years in a
federal prison
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, Farías is still determined to prove his
innocence
Innocence is a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence is prior to the sense of legal guilt and is a primal emotion connected with the sense of self. It is often confused as being the op ...
. For that, he recruits the help of Juan Miranda, the
district attorney
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that originally prosecuted him, who is now a
retired
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Many people choose to retire when they are elderly or incapable of doing their j ...
alcoholic
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.
Meanwhile, Lugo is still trying to keep his involvement in Farías' case and other wrongdoings under wraps. To accomplish it, he
bribe
Bribery is the corrupt solicitation, payment, or acceptance of a private favor (a bribe) in exchange for official action. The purpose of a bribe is to influence the actions of the recipient, a person in charge of an official duty, to act contrar ...
s his accomplice Villanueva (José Félix Gómez) into helping him. Villanueva is now having second thoughts about his involvement and only wants to protect his wife and grandson.
Involved in everything is a female reporter, Julia Norat (Yamaris Latorre), who receives exclusive information from Lugo and has also become his lover. However, upon meeting Farías, Norat is quickly charmed by him.
Cast
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Braulio Castillo, hijo
Braulio Castillo Jr. (born August 30, 1958) is a Puerto Rican actor and radio host. He is the son of Braulio Castillo, an actor across Latin America, and the brother of the lesser known Jorge Castillo, also a television and theater actor.
Biogra ...
- Captain Ángel Lugo
*
Jacobo Morales
Jacobo Morales (born 12 November 1934) is a Puerto Rican actor, poet, writer, playwright, filmmaker, and author born in Puerto Rico.Yamaris Latorre - Julia Norat
* José Félix Gómez - Sergeant José "Cheo" Villanueva
*
Miguel Ángel Suárez
Miguel Ángel Suárez (July 5, 1939 – April 1, 2009) was a Puerto Rican soap opera and movie actor.
Early years
Suárez and his sister were born into a middle-class family and raised in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico. His fathe ...
- Juan S. Miranda
Awards
The film was considered, among four other films, to be submitted for the
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2007. The award ceremony took place on February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During t ...
. For the selection, a voting was held on September 24, 2007, among members of the Puerto Rico Film Corporation. In the final voting, ''Angel'' ended up tied with ''
Maldeamores
''Maldeamores'' () is a 2007 Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican film starring Luis Guzmán, written by Carlos Ruíz Ruíz and Jorge Gonzales, and directed by Ruíz and his wife Mariem Pérez Riera.
The film consists of three separate stories dealing wit ...
'' for the first place. In a second-round voting, the latter prevailed when a voter abstained (see
Submissions for the 80th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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).
See also
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Cinema of Puerto Rico
The history of the Cinema industry in Puerto Rico predates Cinema of the United States, Hollywood, being conceived after the first industries emerged in some locations of the United States, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, France, Great Britain and ...
*
List of films set in Puerto Rico
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El Nuevo Día
''El Nuevo Día'' (English: ''The New Day'') is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico. It is considered mainstream and the territory's newspaper of record. It was founded in 1909 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and today it is a subsi ...
MySpace
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