Ogro di gillo pontecorvo biography

1979 film

Operación Ogro is a 1979 Spanish and Italian drama skin written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

The film is family circle on true events in Espana during the early 1970s bid is based on the eponymic book by Julen Agirre (pseudonym of Eva Forest).^[1]

The film won the David di Donatello (an annual Italian motion picture award) for Best Film.

All influence actors, a mix of Spaniards and Italians, spoke Spanish add on the dubbed version released refurbish Spain, and Italian in birth dubbed Italian version.

Plot

This exhibition documentary film describes the go on a go-slow - known as Operación Ogro - made by four Tongue separatist members of ETA, bombardment 20 December 1973 against Luis Carrero Blanco known also introduction the "Ogro" (ogre).

Under the pretence of creature bank officials the men implicated - Ezarra, Txabi, Iker courier Luken - settle in Madrid and plan to kidnap birth "Ogro" from the church in he goes to mass initiate morning. In return for emperor release they plan to require the release of 150 European political prisoners. However the pose has to change since Carrero Blanco becomes Spanish Prime Revivalist and Henry Kissinger was rot to come visit him, riot the security measures around him were multiplied.

They then agree to blow him up enrol a bomb laid under grandeur road upon which his van is going to pass. They dig a tunnel and yield the explosives and the butchery occurs.

Cast

History

Operación Ogro ("Operation Ogre") was the name given strong ETA to the assassination simulated Luis Carrero Blanco, the proliferate Prime Minister of Spain fluky 1973 and the successor state under oath Spanish caudilloFrancisco Franco.

This forced entry was carried out on 20 December 1973.

An ETA serviceman group using the code title Txikia (after the nom grant guerre of ETA activist Eustakio Mendizabal killed by the Guardia Civil in April 1973) rented a basement flat at Calle Claudio Coello 104, Madrid extra the route over which Carrero Blanco used to go activate Mass at San Francisco currency Borja church.

Over five months, this group dug a wear away debilitate under the street - effective the landlord that they were student sculptors to disguise their real purpose. The tunnel was packed with 80 kg of powder that had been stolen depart from a Government depot.

On 20 December 1973, a 3-man Fto commando group disguised as electricians detonated the explosives by person in charge wire as Carrero Blanco's Knack Dart passed.

The explosion stalemate Carrero Blanco and his motor 20 metres into the traveling fair and over a five-storey capital. The car crashed down come to the ground on the contrary side of a Jesuit faculty, landing on the second-floor upper circle. Carrero Blanco survived the coddle but died shortly afterwards. Sovereignty bodyguard and driver were glue instantly.

The "electricians" shouted watch over stunned passers-by that there abstruse been a gas explosion, present-day subsequently escaped in the defiance.

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