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Maixabel
Sign in to saveMaixabel () is a 2021 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and co-written by Bollaín and Isa Campo. The film stars Blanca Portillo and Luis Tosar alongside Bruno Sevilla, Urko Olazabal and María Cerezuela and is based on the true story of Maixabel Lasa, a woman whose husband, Juan María Jáuregui, was killed by ETA, a Basque separatist group, and who receives an invitation to talk with the killers of her husband eleven years after.
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7.0In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.
Cast
- Blanca Portillo as Maixabel Lasa
- Luis Tosar as Ibon Etxezarreta
- Urko Olazábal as Luis Carrasco
- María Cerezuela as María Jáuregui
- Tamara Canosa as Esther
- María Jesús Hoyos as Madre de Ibon
Themes
- interview
- basque country, spain
- grief
- eta terrorist group
- terrorism
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Maixabel
- Film.image
- Maixabel.jpg
- Film.caption
- Poster
- Film.director
- Icíar Bollaín
- Film.producer
- Koldo ZuazuaJuan MorenoGuillermo Sempere
- Film.music
- Alberto Iglesias
- Film.cinematography
- Javier Agirre Erauso
- Film.editing
- Nacho Ruiz Capillas
- Film.distributor
- Buena Vista International
- Film.runtime
- 115 minutes
- Film.country
- Spain
- Film.language
- Spanish
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Named after
- Maixabel Lasa
- Participant in
- 35th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Spain
- Original language
- Spanish
- Main subject
- mediation
- Director
- Icíar Bollaín
- Screenwriter
- Isa Campo
- Composer
- Alberto Iglesias
- Production company
- EITB
- Narrative location
- Pyrenees
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 375190
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- publication date
- 2021-09-24
- title
- Maixabel
- distributed by
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International
- nominated for
- Goya Award for Best Film
- set in period
- 2011
- set in environment
- prison
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Maixabel () is a 2021 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and co-written by Bollaín and Isa Campo. The film stars Blanca Portillo and Luis Tosar alongside Bruno Sevilla, Urko Olazabal and María Cerezuela and is based on the true story of Maixabel Lasa, a woman whose husband, Juan María Jáuregui, was killed by ETA, a Basque separatist group, and who receives an invitation to talk with the killers of her husband eleven years after.
==Plot== Maixabel Lasa loses her husband, Juan María Jáuregui, in 2000 at the hands of the ETA. She later becomes director of the Basque office for terrorism victims. Jáuregui's killers have been sentenced to prison where they start to reject violence. Eleven years later, she receives an invitation for an interview from one of the killers of her husband, who is serving his sentence in a jail at Nanclares de la Oca in Álava, after cutting his ties with the terrorist group. Despite doubts and immense pain, Maixabel accepts the invitation and comes face to face with the man who took her husband's life.
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