In 1909, the Rigau brothers are the owners of the most important textile factory in Feixes. When Francesc dies, Julià, a dark and ambitious ex-military man, takes over the steamer and confronts everyone to make uniforms for the Spanish army that is fighting the war in Morocco.
Acting
Fernando Guillén's patriarch is pure coiled menace.
Production
The factory itself becomes a suffocating character.
Direction
Verdaguer's steady hand refuses easy catharsis.
Director
Antoni Verdaguer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Spain's late-Franco transition, the film's critique of military-industrial complicity carried dangerous subtext.
The Feixes factory was a real location; Verdaguer had previously documented similar Catalan textile towns in his early short films.
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