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| A feature film with an exclusively female cast that recovers the historical memory of postwar women | Premiere in filmin on August 28.Set in 1949, recorded in black and white and with the presence of only female characters, the film Maquis, which wants to give a voice to post-war women in a divided Spain, opens at Filmin on August 28.
The feature film was scheduled to be screened in theaters, but for now, as a result of the pandemic, it is being released exclusively in digital format on demand on the benchmark platform for auteur and independent cinema.Maquis, which has just been selected at the Wales International Film Festival, is an initiative of the director and screenwriter Rubén Buren, great-grandson of Melchor Rodríguez, the so-called "red angel", the last mayor of Republican Madrid who saved 11,000 political prisoners from death .
After nine years of research and development of his own narrative in other formats such as theater or literature, Maquis appears as a film that wants to use fiction to talk about a forgotten time and a complex context: the rebellion in the mountains during the postwar period and the aid network that was created between the guerrillas and the women of the towns. This is the story of three women who seek happiness, each in their own way.
Pilar, Adela and Sagrario, played by Paloma Suárez, Zaida Alonso and Fátima Plazas, represent three generations of women victims of silence and the civil war.
While in the mountains the guerrillas maintain a fight to the death against the civil guards and await the arrival of the Americans -every time with less morale-, in the plain Adela, who wants to fight against the new system, serves as a link and carries a double life in the house of her mother-in-law Pilar, who has lost her husband and son in the war and all she wants is to stop suffering.
The only thing left in the world is his daughter Sagrario, a young woman who wants to get out of the predetermined path that falls to her class.The three will come into conflict when the circumstances of the guerrilla struggle lead them to make terrible decisions.The exclusively female cast is completed by actresses Teresa del Olmo, Rosa Fernández Cruz, Lula Muñoz, Alicia Lescure and Isabel Romero de León, and residents of the Castilian-La Mancha towns where the filming took place: Madridejos (Toledo), where he recorded in the surroundings of the Casa Molinero Genaro, an ethnographic museum that reconstructs the manor and peasant life of the 50s, and in the Cloister of the San Francisco Convent (Saffron Museum); and Luzón (Guadalajara), where almost all the exteriors were shot, as well as interiors in the Museum of Schools and in two churches.SYNOPSIS:Spain, 1949.
While the guerrillas continue in the mountains, in the plains women suffer repression.
In every house there is a conflict that nobody wants to talk about; some prefer to forget and others to continue fighting.
The women of the towns keep terrible secrets, between fear, machismo and the silence of a country that does not want to remember.
Source: Agencias
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