''Yoyes'' is a 2000 Spanish political drama film directed by consisting of a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of

María Dolores Katarain María Dolores González Katarain (14 May 1954 – 10 September 1986), also known as ''Yoyes'', was an iconic woman leader of Basque terrorist group ETA ( Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), who became a symbol because of the tragic circumstances of her lif ...

(aka Yoyes), a female member of

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, who was targeted by that organization upon her return to the

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Synopsis

In the early 1970s, during the last years of

Franco's 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, Spani ...

, Basque nationalist armed group

uses

political violence Political violence is violence which is perpetrated in order to achieve political goals. It can include violence which is used by a state against other states (war), violence which is used by a state against civilians and non-state actors (forced ...

under the leadership of Argi. Yoyes, a young independent woman, joins ETA in Ordizia, a small town in

Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

. She quickly plays an important role in ETA's organization. Yoyes meets Joxean, a philosophy student and they start a relationship. Eventually, Yoyes finds herself losing faith in ETA's cause. Once the group begins to kill civilians, she decides to leave after Argi dies during a bombing. Dropping out of the group, Yoyes goes underground, and moves to Mexico, where she goes back to college and receives a Ph.D. 12 years later, Yoyes is in Paris, where her husband Joxean gets a teaching position with a French University. When Joxean decides to visit the Basque regions with their small daughter Zuriñe, Yoyes decides to join them, knowing it puts her at great personal risk. When a newspaper prominently publishes the news of Yoyes's return, her former ETA colleagues mistakenly believe that her presence there means that she has turned informant in exchange for permission to return home. They don't want her example to spread and more people to leave the group. Yoyes has tried to forget the past and be forgotten, wanting just to blend back into society. In the autumn, her former comrades have condemned Yoyes to death. While at a local fair in Ordizia, Yoyes is shot in the head in front of her young daughter.

Cast

Awards

* Toulouse Cinespaña: best Actor, best Actress, Special Jury Prize, 2000 *Festival de Cine de Cartagena: Best First Work, Opera Prima, 2001 *Festival de Cine de Gramado: Best Latin Film, 2001

External links

* * http://www.yoyes.com/english/comohizo.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoyes 2000 films 2000s Spanish-language films 2000 drama films Spanish drama films Films about ETA (separatist group) 2000s Spanish films 2000s French films 2000s Italian films

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