Salvador (2006 film)

2006 Spanish film

May 2006 (2006-05) (Cannes)
15 September 2006 (2006-09-15) (Spain)

Running time

134 minutesCountriesSpain
United KingdomLanguages

Catalan
Spanish
French

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.

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

Cast

Daniel Brühl as Salvador Puig Antich
Tristán Ulloa as Oriol Arau
Leonardo Sbaraglia as Jesús Irurre
Leonor Watling as Cuca
Ingrid Rubio as Margalida
Celso Bugallo as Salvador's father
Mercedes Sampietro as Salvador's mother
Olalla Escribano as Imma Puig
Carlota Olcina as Carme Puig
Bea Segura as Montse Puig
Andrea Ros as Merçona Puig
Jacob Torres as Santi Soler
Joel Joan as Oriol Solé
Pau Derqui as Jordi Solé
Oriol Vila as Ignasi Solé
Raül Tortosa as Quim Puig Antich
Biel Durán [ca] as José Luis^[2]
Aida Folch as Marian^[3]
Joaquim Climent as Policia BPS (1)^[3]
Antonio Dechent as Policia BPS (2)^[3]
Carlos Fuentes [es] as Paco^[3]

References

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