Salvador (2006 film)

Salvador (Puig Antich) (or Salvador) is a 2006 film directed by Manuel Huerga starring Daniel Brühl as Salvador Puig Antich. It is based on the 2001 book Compte enrere. La història de Salvador Puig Antich by Francesc Escribano, which depicts the time Puig Antich spent on death row prior to his execution by garrote (the last person to be executed by this method in Spain) in 1974, in the last rales of the Francoist dictatorship.

Salvador (Puig Antich)
Theatrical poster
Directed byManuel Huerga
Written byLluís Arcarazo
Based onCompte enrere. La història de Salvador Puig Antich
by Francesc Escribano
Produced byJaume Roures
StarringDaniel Brühl
Tristán Ulloa
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Leonor Watling
Ingrid Rubio
CinematographyDavid Omedes
Music byLluís Llach
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • May 2006 (2006-05) (Cannes)
  • 15 September 2006 (2006-09-15) (Spain)
Running time
134 minutes
CountriesSpain
United Kingdom
Languages
  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • French

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Cast

See also

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Salvador". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
  2. Camí-Vela, María (2007). "Manuel Huega y Salvador Puig Antich". Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. 11: 207. JSTOR 20641856.
  3. Camí-Vela 2007, p. 207.

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