The Spanish Apartment

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L'Auberge espagnole
The Spanish Apartment
Directed by	Cédric Klapisch
Produced by	Bruno Levy
Written by	Cédric Klapisch
Starring	Judith Godrèche Romain Duris Audrey Tautou
Music by	Various Artists
Cinematography	Dominique Colin
Editing by	Francine Sandberg
Distributed by	20th Century Fox (USA)
Release date(s)	May 17, 2002
Running time	122 min.
Language	French, English, Spanish
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The Spanish Apartment (L'Auberge espagnole- The Spanish Inn) is a 2002 French film directed and written by Cédric Klapisch. It is about Xavier, an Economics graduate student studying for a year in Barcelona, Spain as part of the Erasmus programme, where he encounters and learns from a group of students who hail from all over Western Europe.

The title of the film literally means "the Spanish hostel", and is a French expression meaning something out of which one gets what one puts in; it is sometimes also used to mean a busy, chaotic place. The English title of the film is Pot Luck in the UK and Canada, and The Spanish Apartment in the USA and Australia; Euro Pudding is an international title it was given. In Spain, where it is set, it was released as Una casa de locos — "Madhouse".

The film's portrayal is in the first-person perspective of the main character, Xavier, and is hence mainly narrated in French. Some of the dialogue is in English however, and a significant amount is in Spanish, as well as small amounts in Catalan, Danish, German and Italian.

The marketing for the film tends to focus on Audrey Tautou - the movie's most internationally well-known star - despite the fact that she only plays a relatively small supporting role in the film.

The movie has a sequel, The Russian Dolls.