El concursante (film)

El concursante (Rodrigo Cortés - Red Lights) is a Spanish humor/drama film and filmed within six weeks during 2007.

The Argentinian Martin Circo Martin (Leonardo Sbaraglia) is a Professor of Economic History in Madrid who wins a TV quiz about his field. Overnight millionaire with a winning prize valued at EUR 3 million he gets expensive items, such as a luxury car, a plane, a villa... The problem comes with maintaining the prizes, and the huge taxable capital gains under the Spanish IRS's eye.

This fragment, gems of gems in Youtube, starts with a desperate Mr. Circo visiting an alternative Economist called Edmundo (Chete Lera), looking for the missing piece. Edmundo, a sort of obscure Bernrd Senf, first kicks him out but then he accepts to speak with him because Mr. Circo "looks like a bad Economist". Then the lesson starts after Mr. Circo is asked what his goal with the talk is and he responds with "I want to know..." This is when you know you love the film.

The film is entirely on Youtube, if you have some notions of Spanish, it is a must. Of course, this gem has gone unnoticed.