Genre: Drama
Plot: At the beginning of the 1970s, the MIL, a left-wing group made up of a handful of very young Spanish and French militants puts the police in check with a series of robberies in Catalonia to obtain money to provide funds for the more combative sectors of the workers' movement.At first, the success of their irreverent, provocative and spectacular acts gives the young members of the MIL a sensation of invulnerability that comes to a sudden end in September 1973 when members of the Socio-Political Brigade set a trap for two of the group's militants. During the arrest, there is an uncontrolled shootout in which a young police inspector dies. Salvador Puig Antich is seriously injured and, after a time in hospital, is sent to the Modelo prison of Barcelona to await a court martial. From that moment on and in view of the general indifference, both his sisters and his lawyers begin a race against the clock to save the young activist's life. However, on 20 December 1973, the ETA kills the president of Franco’s government, Admiral Carrero Blanco, and Salvador Puig Antich becomes the scapegoat asked for by one sector of Franco's regime. The court martial against Puig Antich is a farce and the young Salvador is sentenced to death. All the efforts to save his life, including an
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Daniel Brühl
Good Bye Lenin!, The Edukators, Ladies in Lavender. | | | Joel Joan
Tortilla Soup, Nico and Dani, Corazón del guerrero, El | Celso Bugallo
The Sea Inside, Mondays in the Sun, Butterfly's Tongue | | | |
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