Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.
Acting
Noriega's face physically hurts to watch collapse
Direction
Courtois traps you in claustrophobic 70s Spain
Director
Miguel Courtois
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
ETA killed over 800 people during Franco's regime and beyond; this film unpacks how the Spanish state recruited desperate Basques as weapons against their own communities.
The real Txema Loigorri's story remains partially classified; Courtois fought Spanish intelligence archives for two years to verify details.
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