Bucarest. Memory Lost / Bucarest. La memoria perdida
Director: Albert Solé
Writer: Albert Solé
Production: Bausan Films, Minimal Films, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Televisión Española (TVE), 2008
Duration: 80 minutes
Genre:
Documentary, Biography
Language:
Catalan | English | Spanish | French with English subtitles
Cast:
Carlos Arias Navarro, Jordi Borja, Santiago Carrillo, Carmen Claudin
Awards:
2009 Gaudí Awards- Award: Best Documentary- Albert Solé
2009 Goya Awards- Best Documentary
2008 Toulouse Cinespaña- Raíces Award: Best Documentary- Albert Solé
Synopsis:
“Bucharest” is a documentary about memory. From within a double exile, it follows the personal pursuit of Albert (a journalist born in exile in 1962) to recuperate his own roots. His father, the Spanish politician Jordi Solé Tura, who became a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was obliged to go into exile toward the end of the 1950s for his militant anti-Franco beliefs. Now, after living a life replete with passionate personal and political experiences, Jordi has begun to enter a new, internal exile, this time with no possibility of returning: a fight against Alzheimer’s Disease. Every day, his memory slips further away.With this film, Albert will resurrect the memory not only of his father’s atypical life, but also that of other historical Spanish figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Felipe González, Jorge Semprún and the ex-president of Catalonia Jordi Pujol, and little known episodes in the fight against Franco’s dictatorship and the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are the diffuse recollections of a child. He will travel from one exile to another, trying to recompose the memory of his family, his own memory.
Writer: Albert Solé
Production: Bausan Films, Minimal Films, Televisió de Catalunya (TV3), Televisión Española (TVE), 2008
Duration: 80 minutes
Genre:
Documentary, Biography
Language:
Catalan | English | Spanish | French with English subtitles
Cast:
Carlos Arias Navarro, Jordi Borja, Santiago Carrillo, Carmen Claudin
Awards:
2009 Gaudí Awards- Award: Best Documentary- Albert Solé
2009 Goya Awards- Best Documentary
2008 Toulouse Cinespaña- Raíces Award: Best Documentary- Albert Solé
Synopsis:
“Bucharest” is a documentary about memory. From within a double exile, it follows the personal pursuit of Albert (a journalist born in exile in 1962) to recuperate his own roots. His father, the Spanish politician Jordi Solé Tura, who became a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was obliged to go into exile toward the end of the 1950s for his militant anti-Franco beliefs. Now, after living a life replete with passionate personal and political experiences, Jordi has begun to enter a new, internal exile, this time with no possibility of returning: a fight against Alzheimer’s Disease. Every day, his memory slips further away.With this film, Albert will resurrect the memory not only of his father’s atypical life, but also that of other historical Spanish figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Felipe González, Jorge Semprún and the ex-president of Catalonia Jordi Pujol, and little known episodes in the fight against Franco’s dictatorship and the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are the diffuse recollections of a child. He will travel from one exile to another, trying to recompose the memory of his family, his own memory.
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