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Lasa eta Zabala

Lasa & Zabala

18+ (exemption) DIRECTOR: PABLO MALO.
CAST: UNAX UGALDE, FRANCESC ORELLA, ORIOL VITA, JON ANZA, CRISTIAN MERCHAN, RICARD SALES. SPAIN, 2014, POLITICAL THRILLER, 107 MIN, SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

In October 1983, the alleged Basque terrorists Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala were kidnapped across the border in French Bayonne, brutally tortured, and murdered by Spain’s extra-judicial statesponsored anti-terrorist group GAL (Grupos Anti-terroristas de Liberación).

Twelve years later, Jesús García, a police officer from Alicante, following new revelations about GAL, reopens the case of two unidentified bodies that had been unearthed ten years before. Murdered and buried in quicklime – the bodies were proven to be those of Lasa and Zabala. So ensues the long legal battle headed by Iñigo (in a valiant performance by Unax Ugalde) to bring their murderers to justice. As the investigation unfolds, the sequence of real events plays out in parallel, revealing the dirty tricks used in a chilling political situation of this time in recent history. A true story told with honour and courageousness, absorbing from its captivating beginning through to the final moments.

  • OFFICIAL SELECTION
    SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
Australian Premiere.
All non-English films screen with English subtitles.

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