‘Lasa and Zabala’, an “honest it is not against anybody” movie – La Opinión A Coruña

EFE / San Sebastian

Pablo Malo today presented out of competition “ Lasa and Zabala “a film not without controversy featuring a story” honest “and” will not tell anyone, “said the Basque director on the” barbaric “murder of two ETA members at the hands of GAL .

“It’s not a trench film”, said Efe Malo soon after the screening of the film in the Official Selection at the 62nd Film Festival San Sebastian .

The director has thus rejected some critics point to the lack of “contextualization” of the film about the era in which it develops, the eighties, when the ETA terrorist activity was unbearable, a fact that is seen in the film but not on images.

Poor “to try to make” the story with scenes from crimes ETA have been “unfair” because in that case the attacks had been “like a story.”

“Probably these crimes require a movie in themselves,” said Malo, who says that is ready to roll on another occasion a film about “the other side”.

However, stresses, has “put the spotlight” on Lasa and Zabala , aware that his work will look very closely and perhaps

“does not understand”, but argues that done with “honesty” and avoided the “Manichean.”

The film starts in October 1983 in Bayonne where Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala (20 and 21) and members of ETA are kidnapped by a group of civil guards under the command of then Colonel Intxaurrondo barracks in San Sebastian, Enrique Gonzalez Galindo , and taken the building of La Cumbre, where they are tortured and killed.

Malo stressed that the film is faithful to the list that was followed in the High Court against those responsible for the facts and says that although it appears that the policemen involved are caricatured, the reality was “extreme.”

In fact, said that has been “cut” to include some details about the personalities of these characters because “it would have been unlikely” and the public would believe that were exaggerations.

However, it is true that Galindo said, as it appears in the film, that men like his team could have “reconquered South America in a few weeks” or “I had just taken the ‘everything for the home’ to its logical conclusion.”

The thread of the film is the lawyer Iñigo Iruin (Unax Ugalde) because “it is the All that was present throughout the process, “although Malo does not believe that is treated in the film as a” hero. “

The” real heroes “of history are Jesus Garcia, Commissioner of Police initiated research on the remains that had appeared buried lime in Alicante, and judges, “some even find bullets under his pillow.”

The film shows scenes hard tortures Poor justified because it sought emotion like the fact explicitly show shot in the neck with which were topped ETA.

Here again says the film has not had all that figured in the investigation because if had not become a “ Gallery of Horrors “.

“It’s very symbolic of the number of shots that have occurred in this country,” said Malo, who after show their opposition to violence has indicated that if the film serves to not happen again “will be worth it.”

Malo criticizes those who claim that Lasa and Zabala “knew they were getting into,” or that his death may have been avoided murders. “That is political fiction,” he says.

“If the film is for people to approach the idea that there must be dialogue and what’s happened for 50 years has not been for nothing, but for many people is in the cemetery and many people in jail give me satisfied, “he concludes.