Synopsis
La Casa del Pueblo, in Santa Lucía de Gordón, was known during the darkest times of Franco’s regime as “Casa de España”. It is difficult to calculate how many workers disaffected with the regime were locked up and tortured within its walls, used in most cases as slave labour. And it is also very difficult to know how many of them finally walked out of its doors, without trial of any kind, to be “paraded”, shot and thrown into a pit.
Presented by the artists
Filmmaker
Carlos Balbuena
The aesthetic and political weight of the landscape is one of the characteristics of his cinema, a good part of which has been seen on the screens of D’A. He graduated from ESCAC and his career has focused mainly on editing, as well as film criticism. His films Ashes, produced by Pere Portabella, and Elephants, had their world premiere at the D’A and were selected at several international film festivals.
Filmography: Private Hunting Reserve (mid-length film, 2025, D'A 2025), Far Away (short film, 2024, D'A 2024), Toward Morning I Climb Down and Wander Back Into the House (short film, 2021, D'A 2021), Tres quarteres (mid-length film, 2019, D'A 2019), Elephants (2017, D’A 2018), Ashes (2014, D’A 2014), Un poco de sal para la lubina (short film, 2005), Detalles sórdidos (short film, 2007)
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