Salvador

 

Director: Manuel Huerga
Year: 2006
Language: Catalan, Spanish | English subtitles
Length: 137 min

 

4th Festival 2016

On 2nd of March 1974, the young militant of the Movimiento Ibérico de Liberación (Iberian Liberation Movement), Salvador Puig Antich, became the last political prisoner to be executed in Spain by the garrotte.

This is his story and that of the desperate attempts of his family, colleagues and lawyers to avoid his execution.