Xirinacs, a contracorrent

Where was it filmed?

Film Friendly Towns

Shooting: 
2016
Release: 
2016
Type: 
Feature-length documentary
Director: 
Sergi Guix
Production Co.: 
Zeba Produccions
Country: 
Spain
Synopsis: 

On the 11th August 2007, the dead body of Lluis Maria Xirinacs was found. This ex priest was a symbol of the nonviolent fight and the Catalan national reclaim during the Francoism. Xirinacs was candidate for three consecutive years to the Peace Nobel Prize, did many hunger strikes and spent more than 650 days in front of the Model Prison in Barcelona, claiming for the amnisty. He was also a polemic man: in 2002 he declared himself “friend of ETA” and he failed with creating a new political party that didn’t get representation. He elaborated a philosophical and economical system an alternative to capitalism and communism.

Shot in: Barcelona, Santa Cecília de Montserrat, Sant Jaume de Frontanyà, Pla de Can Pegot (Ogassa).

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