The Wheelchair (1960)
03/11/1960
Comedy
1h 25m
- 69% (50 votes)
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Overview
Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…
- Marco FerreriDirector, Screenplay
- Rafael AzconaScreenplay
Original Title
El cochecito
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Keywords
- madrid, spain
- obsession
- bodily disabled person
- wheelchair
- dark comedy
- franco regime (francoism)
- old man
- motorcycle gang
- tantrum
- disabled
- disability
- scooter
- elderly
- fake illness
- physical disability
- fitting in
- old gang
- elder care
- murder of family
- father son conflict
- anti-fascism
- medical supplies
- extreme measures
- loss of legs
- elder abuse
- disabled person
- motorbike
- motorised youth
- family elder
- death by poisoning
- elderly father
- fear of missing out
Top Billed Cast
José Isbert
Don Anselmo
Pedro Porcel
Carlos
José Luis López Vázquez
Alvarito
María Luisa Ponte
Matilde
Antonio Gavilán
Don Hilario
José 'Lepe' Álvarez
(uncredited)
Chus Lampreave
Yolanda Proharán
Ángel Álvarez
Álvarez
Carmen Santonja
Julita
Antonio Riquelme
Doctor Don Julio
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