Where we should be caught up in the emotion of a man staring death in the face, we are marvelling at the clunky switch from Seventies crime thriller to run-of-the-mill prison melodrama.
Salvador (2006)
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Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: 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... 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 improbable and bizarre escape attempt, are in vain and Puig Antich is executed by the garrotte on 2 March 1974. His cruel and tragic death leaves a mark for many years on a generation that still asks itself whether or not it could have done more to avoid an execution that was as terrible as it was pointless. [More]
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Tristan Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Leonor Watling
Starring: Daniel Bruhl, Tristan Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Leonor Watling, Ingrid Rubio, Celso Bugallo, Mercedes Sampietro
Director: Manuel Huerga
Director: Manuel Huerga
Reviews for Salvador
Lluis Arcarazo's unfocused script fails in the first half to generate enough sympathy for the charming but irresponsible protag, but then switches gears and piles on the sentiment in pure TV movie fashion once execution time approaches.
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