Salvador - fight for freedom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Salvador - fight for freedom |
| Original title | Salvador (Puig Antich) |
| Country of production | Spain , United Kingdom |
| original language | Catalan , Spanish , French |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 134 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Manuel Huerga |
| script | Lluís Arcarazo |
| production | Allesandra Morlesco |
| music | Lluís Llach |
| camera | David Ornedes |
| cut |
Aixalà Santi Borricón |
| occupation | |
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Salvador - Fight for Freedom is a Spanish fiction film from 2006 by Manuel Huerga with Daniel Brühl , Tristán Ulloa , Leonardo Sbaraglia , Leonor Watling , Ingrid Rubio and Joaquín Hinojosa in the leading roles.
The film is based on the book Cuentra atrás. La historia de Salvador Puig Antich by Francesco Escribano , who describes the last execution of a prisoner by the Garrote : Salvador Puig Antich .
The film won the Goya film award for best adapted screenplay ( Lluis Arcazaro ).
action
In the last year of the Franco dictatorship, the MIL ( Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación ), an anarchist group , embarked on a series of robberies in order to finance their opposition activities against the dictatorship. Salvador Puig Antich is one of the idealistic young members of the group. The police don't take the group seriously at first, but eventually try to arrest them.
A police operation to arrest the still active members of the group ends in a wild shooting that results in the death of a young police officer and the arrest of the MIL members. Salvador Puig Antich, who also sustained gunshot wounds, is accused of killing the policeman. In a trial before the military tribunal, he was sentenced to death on the basis of numerous irregularities - such as the disappearance of evidence - due to the recent murder of the dictatorship's leading figure, Admiral Carrero Blanco . In an effort to demonstrate force, the regime sentenced Salvador to death by the Garrote .
criticism
kino.de calls the film an “oppressive history lesson in an elementary coming to terms with the past” and states: “The relaxed tone that was initially struck with the 1968 rebel romanticism soon turned into a bitter accusation.”
background
The film took in 2006 under the title Una mirada cierta at the Film Festival in Cannes in part. On September 15, 2006, the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España selected Salvador together with other films as the Spanish contribution to the Oscar .
Dispute over historical accuracy
Both the film and its literary source have been heavily criticized by former MIL members and Salvador’s MIL companions, who confirm that the political dimension of the characters in Puig Antich is reduced to a minimum, as well as the image of their prison guard, the military court and the Brigada Político-Social of Franco politics is falsely glorified.
Awards
Goya
Lluís Arcazaro received the Goya Film Award in 2007 for the best adapted screenplay .
In the same year there were also nominations for Best Film , Best Cinematography by David Ornedes , Best Editing ( Santi Borricón and Aixalá ), Best Producer ( Bernat Elias ), Best Director ( Manuel Huerga ), Best Actor ( Daniel Brühl ), Best Score ( Lluís Llach ), Best Sound (Alastair Widgery, Calleja and Ferrán Piquer) and Best Supporting Actor ( Leonardo Sbaraglia ).
Premio de Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos
Also in 2007 there were nominations for Daniel Brühl (Best Actor), Aizalá and Santi Borricón (Best Editing), Lluís Llach (Best Music) and Lluís Arcarazo (Best Adapted Screenplay).
Flanders International Film Festival
Here Manuel Huerga was nominated for the Grand Prix in 2006.
Fotogramas de Plata
In 2007 Daniel Brühl was nominated for Best Actor .
Premios Ondas
In 2006 Manuel Huerga won the Premio Cinemania .
Toulouse Cinespaña
In 2006 Manuel Huerga won the Premio de la audiencia and received a Violette d'or nomination.
Unión de Actores
In 2007, nominations went to Daniel Brühl for best male leading role and Ingrid Rubio for best female supporting actress.
Web links
- Salvador - the struggle for freedom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Salvador - Fight for Freedom . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 375 K).
- ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/salvador-kampf-um-die-freiheit/92726.html