
13 Sep 2001

The Business of Strangers
A dark thriller about a successful businesswoman and her young assistant who toy with a slow-witted businessman while stuck at an airport hotel.
In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.
Fernando II de Aragón
Juana I de Castilla
Felipe I de Castilla
Cardenal Cisneros
Gonzalo Chacón
Andrés de Cabrera
Gutierre Gómez de Fuensalida
Margarita de Austria
Germana de Foix
Maximiliano I de Habsburgo
Pedro Manrique de Lara y Sandoval
Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez
Guillermo de Veyré
Juan Belmonte
Alonso Pimentel y Pacheco
Beatriz de Bobadilla
Juana de Aragón
Isabel I de Castilla
Bernardino Fernández de Velasco y Mendoza
Fernando I de Habsburgo
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