Fine Drama Thriller about Spain vs. the Basque Separatist organization
ETA during
the 1990's, and the last years when the ETA used violence towards the
Spanish state
in their quest for a "liberated" Basque Country.
The Spanish police (and the Special Force) tried to infiltrate ETA by
planting moles
and in this film young police woman Mónica Marin AKA Arantxa
(Carolina Yuste)
moves to San Sebastian many years before she's assigned a task by ETA
members.
I remember visiting San Sebastian in the summer of 1975
(yes, i'm an old guy) as a
teenager and there were soldiers armed with automatic guns everywhere,
at every
corner almost and the Generalissimo Franco died later that year.
Then it was a War between between Fascist Spain and ETA which explains
the very
grim and scary Spanish soldiers when crossing the frontier from and
to France.
The Film:
A newly graduated and young female cop, Mónica
Marín is picked by her boss,
Chief Inspector Ángel Salcedo (Luis Tosar)
to be an undercover cop and infiltrate
the ETA. She lives for seven years in the 1990's and works and meet
her Basque
friends before she's trusted enough by the ETA leaders (the very few
of them left)
to make contact with an ETA "soldier".
She's to share her apartment with him, Kepa (Iñigo
Gastesi) until he's ordered to act.
Ángel and his task force have her apartment under surveillance
and listens to
everything they say. Then, another ETA "soldier" Sergio (Diego
Anido) joins them,
and he's suspicious of her and scary as hell. Will her cover hold?
ETA announces a permanent ceasefire and Ángel's bosses orders
the whole
Operation to be cancelled, but a few ETA loose cannons is not to be
trusted.
Spain has had, and has, "problems" with Separatist sentiments
expressed in some
of the regions/autonomous communities, as the Catalan Independence Movement,
The Basque and in Galicia and surely some more.
I visited Barcelona and Vigo in 2019 during the Unrest. In Barcelona
people were
out in the streets protesting and lots of windows had Catalan flags
hanging from
them, and some Spanish flags. Did people support independence then ?
In Vigo, Galicia, I only saw a very small Demonstration and mostly Spanish
flags
were hanging from the windows, only a few Galician flags. Galicia stayed
calm.
The film is presented in 2.39:1 widescreen ratio with spanish audio
DTS-HD MA
5.1 or 2.0 with english subtitles. Trailer, Teaser and a Gallery. Region
B
The film was showered with film awards