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This Monday, Óscar Aibar presented the film 'The Substitute' within the framework of the Malaga Film Festival. The feature film, set in Denia in the 80s, offers a portrait of the Nazi presence in the early 80s in Spain and the historical repetition with the rise of fascism in recent years. 1982. Andrés Expósito (Ricardo Gómez), a young police officer trained in the toughest neighborhoods of Madrid, accepts a posting to a seaside town in the hope of curing his daughter and, in the process, gaining some peace of mind. Once there, he becomes involved in the investigation of the strange murder of the inspector he is to replace. The investigations will take him to a beach hotel where a community of elderly Nazis, wanted by many countries for crimes against humanity, live a paradisiacal and happy retirement. The team has participated in a press conference to present the film.
The director Óscar Aibar has done it virtually for health Angola Email Lis reasons, but the performers Ricardo Gómez, Vicky Luengo, Pere Ponce and the producer Gerardo Herrero have been present. The film denounces the permanence of fascism in society and "how history repeats itself when two or three generations pass ," explained Óscar Aibar. by Taboolayou may like When Petrovic 'burned' Barcelona's Catalan Bank with Parmalat in the Copa del Rey basketball The film arises from a photograph that the director found in a restaurant in Denia in which men appeared in uniforms with Nazi symbols. This motivated the director to investigate possible connections between the Franco regime and German Nazism. "I began to investigate those relations that Spain had with the Nazis, even in the 80s." At the press conference, the director explained that telling this story through film is "a dream.
It is something so rarely told that I felt the need to show that connection that existed between the Nazis and Spain ," he reiterated. The director has acknowledged that the script is a "speculation" of what could really happen, in reference to the real estate business in which many Germans entered when they came to Spain and specifically to the Levantine coast. The context, 1982, takes on an important meaning in history because, already in democracy and with the victory that year of Felipe González, "there were still remnants of Francoism." The director used different symbols to contextualize the 80s and has acknowledged that it was "very difficult" to recreate the decade. "The 80s seem close, but finding the elements that recreate them has been very difficult . " Aibar has also valued the role of the actors in this contextual work.
The director Óscar Aibar has done it virtually for health Angola Email Lis reasons, but the performers Ricardo Gómez, Vicky Luengo, Pere Ponce and the producer Gerardo Herrero have been present. The film denounces the permanence of fascism in society and "how history repeats itself when two or three generations pass ," explained Óscar Aibar. by Taboolayou may like When Petrovic 'burned' Barcelona's Catalan Bank with Parmalat in the Copa del Rey basketball The film arises from a photograph that the director found in a restaurant in Denia in which men appeared in uniforms with Nazi symbols. This motivated the director to investigate possible connections between the Franco regime and German Nazism. "I began to investigate those relations that Spain had with the Nazis, even in the 80s." At the press conference, the director explained that telling this story through film is "a dream.
It is something so rarely told that I felt the need to show that connection that existed between the Nazis and Spain ," he reiterated. The director has acknowledged that the script is a "speculation" of what could really happen, in reference to the real estate business in which many Germans entered when they came to Spain and specifically to the Levantine coast. The context, 1982, takes on an important meaning in history because, already in democracy and with the victory that year of Felipe González, "there were still remnants of Francoism." The director used different symbols to contextualize the 80s and has acknowledged that it was "very difficult" to recreate the decade. "The 80s seem close, but finding the elements that recreate them has been very difficult . " Aibar has also valued the role of the actors in this contextual work.