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Three short stories based on radio competitions, all linked by speaker Gabriel and his fiancee. Two inventors who want to patent a piston and need money, a thief who answers a phone call while robbing and a child who needs to go to Sweden for an operation are the protagonists of these stories around the radio.
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Carlos Acevedo Margarita Andrey Alicia Altabella Francisco Rabal José Isbert Ángel de Andrés José María Lado Alberto Romea Guadalupe Muñoz Sampedro Juanjo Menéndez Tony Leblanc Juan Calvo Pedro Porcel José Luis Ozores Adrián Ortega José Orjas Juan Vázquez Gustavo Re Teresa del Río Nicolás D. Perchicot Rafael Bardem Xan das Bolas Francisco Bernal Alicia Altabella Félix Briones Isabel Pallarés Antonio Fernández Teófilo Palou Manuel Guitián Carlos Osorio Bobby Deglané Luis Molowny Rafael Gómez 'El Gallo' Gracia Montes María Teresa Campos Juan Córdoba José Luis Pecker Ana María Saizar
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