Aitor Arregi — Director (6)

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Mateo's Mother (2019)
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other title: La madre de Mateo / Mateoren ama
After a period of time without seeing his mother, Anjel Mari decides to bite the bullet and go and visit her at the nursing home to which she has been admitted. He doesn’t like seeing how his mother has disappeared under the skin of a senile old woman who does not recognise her own children.

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MARCO, The Invented Truth (2024)
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埃特尔·阿瑞吉 / 约恩·加拉诺 actor: 爱德华·费尔南德斯 / 娜塔莉·波萨 …
other title: Marco, la verdad inventada / 马可 …
A drama-thriller that tells the story of a deportee who never existed. It spins the tale of the life of a man who, for years, was able to keep telling a lie in the public eye, and even to his own family. It was a lie that’s difficult to make up: that he had been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Indeed, Enric Marco Batlle (1921-2020) was a Spanish trade unionist who served as secretary-general of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and as the president of the Amical de Mauthausen association in Spain. During his time at the head of this association, he gave a large number of talks, chiefly in educational institutions, about his alleged life as a survivor of the Nazis, replete with anecdotes and tiny details; however, in 2005, he courted international infamy after a report by historian and researcher Benito Bermejo (who specialises in studying Spaniards who were deported to concentration camps) discovered that he had falsified information in his biography so as to appear as a survivor of the Nazi extermination camp in Flossenbürg. Despite this, he never apologised for the hoax.

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Handia (2017)
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★ 6.0 7 ratings
约恩·加拉诺 / 埃特尔·阿瑞吉 actor: 恩尼科·萨伽多伊 / 拉蒙·阿吉尔 …
other title: 巨人 / Aundiya …
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.

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The Endless Trench (2019)
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★ 5.8 5 ratings
other title: 无尽的战壕 / La trinchera infinita …
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.