Film : Espagnol.
Genre : Drame.
Durée : 2h13min.
Date de Sortie : prochainement
Avec : Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia.
Réalisé par : Manuel Huerga.
Le 2 mars 1974, Salvador Puig Antich, jeune militant appartenant au Mouvement Ibérique de Libération (MIL), devenait le dernier détenu politique exécuté en Espagne selon le procédé du "garrot vil".
Voilà son histoire et celle des tentatives désespérées de sa famille, de ses camarades et avocats pour éviter son exécution.
(L'avis exprimé par les rédacteurs de cette rubrique est indépendant du travail et des choix du Jury oecuménique.)
23 mai 2006
Salvador Puig Antich is not a household name for most audiences, perhaps not even in his native Spain. Catalonia, more probably. But in 1974 he was well known, part of a group of terrorists running between Barcelona and Toulouse from the late 1960s, the time of student unrest around Europe and the formation of the Red Brigade and other underground movements.
In the first half we observe Salvador and, while there is sympathy for his idealism and principles, it is his crimes and violence that are alienating.
Then we get to know the person behind the action and that is a different experience. Audiences can identify with the angry warden, who even tries to warn off the lawyer, then reads Salvador’s letter to his father, begins to think differently about him, then talks, discussing his son’s dyslexia, plays basketball with him and comes to realise, as we do, that the state is exercising vindictive barbarism and scapegoating. The death sequence (garrotting by an indifferent executioner) is powerfully brutal.
