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Stranded (2015 film)

2016 film by José Corbacho, Juan Cruz

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ32764100 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stranded (Spanish: Incidencias) is 2015 Spanish black comedy film directed by José Corbacho and Juan Cruz. Its ensemble cast features Ernesto Alterio, Lola Dueñas, Carlos Areces, Rubén Ochandiano, Miki Esparbé, Toni Acosta, Roberto Álamo, Nao Albet, Núria Gago, Aida Folch, Karim Ait M'Hand, Saras Gil, Alfonsa Rosso, and Manuel Segura.

Plot

On New Year's Eve, after an AVE train on its way from Barcelona to Madrid stops in the middle of nowhere, its stranded passengers and crew members bring out their secrets.

Cast

Production

The film is a Castelao Pictures and Incidencias la película AIE production, and it had the participation of TVE and TVC. Shooting locations in Catalonia included L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, and Súria.

Release

The film was presented at the 60th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in a non-competitive slot on 24 October 2015. Distributed by Filmax, it was released theatrically on 31 December 2015.

Reception

Javier Ocaña of El País declared Stranded an "inexplicable" comedy from "the first minute to the last", giving the impression of being a "half-done" work.

Manuel J. Lombardo of Diario de Sevilla wrote that "none of its stories, none of its gags, none of its jokes ever raise the slightest smile".

Fausto Fernández of Fotogramas rated the film three out of five stars, deeming it to be "great entertainment" and "a great vehicle for the showcasing of its cast".

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“Stranded (2015 film)” enters the record as 2016 film by José Corbacho, Juan Cruz. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Stranded, film and José can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-12-31. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Stranded, film and José.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q32764100. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Stranded (2015 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.