''Salvador (Puig Antich)'' (or ''Salvador'') is a 2006 film directed by
Manuel Huerga
Manuel Huerga (born 20 October 1957) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''Salvador (Puig Antich)'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Selected filmography Film
* ''Brutal Ardour'' ( ...
. It is based on the 2001
Francesc Escribano Francesc () is a masculine given name of Catalan origin. It is a cognate of Francis, Francesco, Francisco, François, and Franz. People with the name include:
*Cesc Fàbregas (Francesc Fàbregas i Soler) (born 1987), Spanish professional football ...
book , which depicts the time
Salvador Puig Antich
Salvador Puig Antich (; 30 May 1948 – 2 March 1974) was a Spanish militant anarchist from Catalonia. His execution for involvement in a bank robbery and shooting a police officer dead became a ''cause célèbre'' in Francoist Spain for Cata ...
spent on
death row
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting Capital punishment, execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of ...
prior to his execution by
garrote
A garrote or garrote vil (a Spanish word; alternative spellings include garotte and similar variants''Oxford English Dictionary'', 11th Ed: garrotte is normal British English spelling, with single r alternate. Article title is US English spellin ...
(the last person to be executed by this method in Spain) in 1974, in the last rales of the
Francoist dictatorship
Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...
.
The film was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2006 Cannes Film Festival
The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over the ...
.
Cast
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Daniel Brühl
Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo (; born 16 June 1978) is a Spanish-German actor and filmmaker. He received his first German Film Award for Best Actor for his roles in '' Das Weisse Rauschen (The White Sound)'' (2001), ''Nichts ...
as Salvador Puig Antich
*
Tristán Ulloa
Tristán Ulloa (born 6 May 1970) is a Spanish actor, writer, and director.
Career
He was born in Orléans and lived with his Spanish grandparents exiled in France. He spent his teenage years in Vigo, Galicia. His mother, Esther San Román, lives ...
as Oriol Arau
*
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Leonardo Máximo Sbaraglia (; born 30 June 1970) is an Argentine actor, with extensive credits in both Argentina and Spain. He has also worked in Mexico, and was cast in his first English-language role in '' Red Lights''.
Biography
Sbaraglia was ...
as Jesús Irurre
*
Leonor Watling
Leonor Elizabeth Ceballos Watling (born 28 July 1975) is a Spanish film actress and singer.
Early life
Leonor Ceballos Watling was born on 28 July 1975 in Madrid, to a Spanish father from Province of Cádiz, Cádiz and an English mother, the ...
as Cuca
*
Ingrid Rubio
Ingrid Rubio Ruiz (born 2 August 1975 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She won the Special Mention Award at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film ''Taxi (1996 film), Taxi''.
Career
She h ...
as Margalida
*
Celso Bugallo
Celso Bugallo Aguiar (born 12 March 1947) is a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than forty films since 1999.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1947 births
Living people
Spanish male film actors
20th-century Sp ...
as Salvador's father
*
Mercedes Sampietro
Mercedes Sampietro Marro (born 24 January 1947) is a Spanish actress.
Biography
Mercedes Sampietro Marro was born in Barcelona on 24 January 1947. She began her career as a stage actress in 1970. Having performed as a voice actress in a numb ...
as Salvador's mother
*
Olalla Escribano
Olalla may refer to:
Places
*Olalla, British Columbia, an unincorporated settlement in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada
*Olalla, Washington, an unincorporated settlement on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washin ...
as Imma Puig
*
Carlota Olcina
Carlota Olcina (n. Sabadell, June 21, 1983) is a Spanish actress known for her participation in several television series including ''El cor de la ciutat, Amar en tiempos revueltos'' and '' Merlí.''
Biography
Born in the neighborhood of La ...
as Carme Puig
*
Bea Segura
Beatriz "Bea" Segura i Folch (born 22 March 1975) is a Spanish actress.
Filmography
References
External links
*
Bea Seguraat the Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database ...
as Montse Puig
*
Andrea Ros
Andrea Ros (born 3 May 1993) is a Spanish film, theater and television actress.
Biography
She began his career with small roles in television series in Catalonia, and also participated in several plays and short films.
Her first big opportun ...
as Merçona Puig
*
Jacob Torres
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...
as Santi Soler
*
Joel Joan
Joel Joan i Juvé (; born 2 November 1970) is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and director.
Biography
Joan studied dramatic arts at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He began his acting career on the stage, appearing in productions directed by ...
as Oriol Solé
*
Pau Derqui as Jordi Solé
*
Oriol Vila
Oriol () is a Catalan name, which can be found as a given name or a surname. It derives from the Latin word ''aureus'' (golden). It was originally just a surname, but started to be used as a given name in honour of Saint Joseph Oriol. It may refer ...
as Ignasi Solé
*
Raül Tortosa
Raül Tortosa is a Spanish actor and director born in Terrassa (Barcelona). He is also the vocalist of the pop-rock band Una Hora Más.
In 2016 he portrayed a Tyrell Captain in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'' in Season 6. He won the Best Actor ...
as Quim Puig Antich
References
Further reading
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External links
The Great Swindle: 'This is not the tale of Salvador Puig Antich'*
A memorial from Salvador Puig Antich versus MediaPro film (in Catalan)
2000s political drama films
2006 films
British biographical drama films
2000s Catalan-language films
Films about anarchism
Films about bank robbery
Films about capital punishment
Films directed by Manuel Huerga
Films set in Barcelona
Films set in Spain
Films set in the 1970s
Films shot in Barcelona
Francoist Spain
2000s French-language films
Spanish biographical drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
2006 multilingual films
British multilingual films
Spanish multilingual films
2000s British films
2000s Spanish films
2000s prison drama films
Spanish prison films
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