En la ciudad sin límites (In the City of No Limits) is a 2002 Spanish-Argentine thriller directed by Antonio Hernández

Antonio Hernández

Antonio Hernández is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.In 1994, he created the TV company Zeppelín Televisión.-Director:*1980: F.E.N.*1981: Apaga.....

 and starring Leonardo Sbaraglia

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia is a prominent Argentine film actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain.He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in Red Lights.-Life and work:...

 and Fernando Fernán Gómez

Fernando Fernán Gómez

Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor and director. He was born in Lima, Peru as his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour of Latin America. Inheriting his surname as a stage name, he moved to Spain in 1924.After the Spanish Civil War he began a study of Law but...

. The film was nominated for four Goya Awards

Goya Awards

The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards....

 in 2003, winning the award for Best Original Screenplay

Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards-References:**...

 and Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...

 winning the award for Best Supporting Actress

Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards....

. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

 on 12 February 2002 and was released theatrically in Spain on 1 March of the same year.

Plot

A young man, Victor (Sbaraglia), arrives in Paris where his family have gathered around his seriously ill father Max (Fernán Gómez), a former mogul now deteriorating physically and mentally. Max begins to behave very strangely as his memories and those of Spain's past begin to cloud his mind. He becomes terrified of the staff taking care of him, he tries to escape from the clinic. The rest of his family assume the old man is mad and begin to squabble of dividing up his legacy, but Victor becomes convinced that his father is being troubled by real events and resolves to find out why.

Cast

• Leonardo Sbaraglia
  Leonardo Sbaraglia
  Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia is a prominent Argentine film actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain.He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in Red Lights.-Life and work:...
  
   as Victor
• Fernando Fernán Gómez
  Fernando Fernán Gómez
  Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor and director. He was born in Lima, Peru as his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour of Latin America. Inheriting his surname as a stage name, he moved to Spain in 1924.After the Spanish Civil War he began a study of Law but...
  
   as Max
• Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Chaplin
  Geraldine Leigh Chaplin is an English-American actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin.Chaplin first came to prominence for her Golden Globe-nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago . She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville...
  
   as Marie
• Ana Fernández as Carmen
• Adriana Ozores
  Adriana Ozores
  -Biography:Daughter of the actor José Luis, who died when she was 9 years old. Niece of the actor Antonio Ozores and the director Mariano Ozores and cousin of the actress Emma Ozores....
  
   as Pilar
• Leticia Brédice
  Leticia Brédice
  Leticia Marcela Brédice is an Argentine award-winning actress. She was born in Buenos Aires, though her birthdate has been reported as both August 26, 1972 and December 26, 1972. She and Juan Pablo Sanguinetti had a son, Indio, on August 11, 2005....
  
  as Eileen