Ogro
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Operación Ogro is a 1979 Spanish and Italian drama film written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.
The film is based on true events in Spain during the early 1970s and is based on the eponymous book by Julen Agirre (pseudonym of Eva Forest).
The film won the David di Donatello (an annual Italian motion picture award) for Best Film.
All the actors, a mix of Spaniards and Italians, spoke Spanish in the dubbed version released in Spain, and in Italian in the dubbed Italian version.
Plot
This drama documentary film describes the attack - known as Operación Ogro - made by four Basque separatist members of ETA, on 20 December 1973 against Luis Carrero Blanco known also as the "Ogro" (ogre). Under the pretence of being bank officials the men involved - Ezarra, Txabi, Iker and Luken - settle in Madrid and plan to kidnap the "Ogro" from the church where he goes to mass each morning. In return for his release they plan to demand the release of 150 Basque political prisoners. However the planning has to change since Carrero Blanco becomes Spanish Prime Minister and Henry Kissinger was set to come visit him, all the security measures around him were multiplied. They then decide to blow him up with a bomb laid under the road upon which his car is going to pass. They dig a tunnel and lay the explosives and the assassination occurs.
Cast
- Gian Maria Volonté: Izarra
- José Sacristán: Iker
- Ángela Molina: Amaiur
- Eusebio Poncela: Txabi
- Saverio Marconi: Luque
- Georges Staquet: The builder
- Nicole Garcia: Karmele
- Féodor Atkine: José María Uriarte (alias Yoseba)
- Estanis González
- Agapito Romo: Luis Carrero Blanco
- José Manuel Cervino: The milkman
- Ana Torrent: Basque girl