Basilio Martín Patino: Freedom and Independence
Madrid
Basilio Martín Patino
Spain, 1987
Betacam SP (PAL) | 114min. | Colour
Basilio Martín Patino
Spain, 1987
Betacam SP (PAL) | 114min. | Colour
Production: José Luis García Sánchez
Photography: Augusto G. Fernández Balbuena
Screenplay: Basilio Martín Patino
Music: Carmelo Bernaola
Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Verónica Forqué, Maria Luisa Ponte, Luis Ciges, Ana Duato
Photography: Augusto G. Fernández Balbuena
Screenplay: Basilio Martín Patino
Music: Carmelo Bernaola
Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Verónica Forqué, Maria Luisa Ponte, Luis Ciges, Ana Duato
Fifty years after the Spanish Civil War, German filmmaker Hans is in Madrid to make a TV programme on the city and the war. Accompanied by editor Lucía and cameraman Goyo, he scours the modern-day city for images, exploring its spaces and people for links to the past. At the same time, as he looks through and edits archive footage, he questions the meaning and nature of his work (he doesn't see eye to eye with the producers) and ends up being replaced just as he was beginning to get into it: the price of taking the side of freedom.
Gran Premio - Festival Internacional de Cine de Autor de Bérgamo, 1987
FIPRESCI Prize - Troia Film Festival, 1987
Best Film - Festival de San Remo, 1987
