Yoyes
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Yoyes is a 2000
Spanish
film
directed by Helena Taberna. The film is a political drama, a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of Dolores González Catarain (aka "Yoyes
"), a woman member of ETA
, who was targeted by that organization upon her return to the Basque Country
.
's dictatorship, ETA
was group of Basque terrorists staging political actions in Spain under the leadership of Argi. Yoyes, a young independent woman, joins ETA
in Ordizia
, a small town in the Basque Country. She quickly plays an important role in ETA organization. Yoyes meets Joxean, a philosophy student and they start a relationship.
Eventually, Yoyes finds herself losing faith in the ETA's cause. Once the band began to murder civilians, she decides to leave after Argi dies during a bombing. Dropping out of terrorism, Yoyes goes underground, and moves to Mexico, where she goes back to college and receives a Ph.D.
A dozen years later, Yoyes is in Paris where her husband Joxean gets a teaching position with a French University. When Joxean decides to visit the Basque regions with their small daughter Zuriñe, Yoyes decides to join them, knowing it puts her at great personal risk.
When a newspaper prominently publishes the news of Yoyes’s return, her former ETA colleagues mistakenly believe that her presence there means that she has turned informant in exchange for permission to return home. They don't want her example to spread and more people to leave the band. Yoyes has tried to forget the past and be forgotten, wanting just to blend back into society. In autumn, her former comrades have condemned Yoyes to death. While in a local fair in Ordizia, Yoyes is shot in the head in front of her young daughter.
2000 in film
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Spanish
Spain
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film
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directed by Helena Taberna. The film is a political drama, a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of Dolores González Catarain (aka "Yoyes
Yoyes
Yoyes is a 2000 Spanish film directed by Helena Taberna. The film is a political drama, a fictionalized reconstruction of the life of Dolores González Catarain , a woman member of ETA, who was targeted by that organization upon her return to the Basque Country.-Synopsis :In the early 1970s, during...
"), a woman member of ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
, who was targeted by that organization upon her return to the Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
.
Synopsis
In the early 1970s, during the last years of FrancoFrancisco Franco
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
's dictatorship, ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
was group of Basque terrorists staging political actions in Spain under the leadership of Argi. Yoyes, a young independent woman, joins ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
in Ordizia
Ordizia
Ordizia is a town and municipality located in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain.The professional cycle road race Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia is held yearly in Ordizia....
, a small town in the Basque Country. She quickly plays an important role in ETA organization. Yoyes meets Joxean, a philosophy student and they start a relationship.
Eventually, Yoyes finds herself losing faith in the ETA's cause. Once the band began to murder civilians, she decides to leave after Argi dies during a bombing. Dropping out of terrorism, Yoyes goes underground, and moves to Mexico, where she goes back to college and receives a Ph.D.
A dozen years later, Yoyes is in Paris where her husband Joxean gets a teaching position with a French University. When Joxean decides to visit the Basque regions with their small daughter Zuriñe, Yoyes decides to join them, knowing it puts her at great personal risk.
When a newspaper prominently publishes the news of Yoyes’s return, her former ETA colleagues mistakenly believe that her presence there means that she has turned informant in exchange for permission to return home. They don't want her example to spread and more people to leave the band. Yoyes has tried to forget the past and be forgotten, wanting just to blend back into society. In autumn, her former comrades have condemned Yoyes to death. While in a local fair in Ordizia, Yoyes is shot in the head in front of her young daughter.
Cast
- Ana TorrentAna TorrentAna Torrent Bertrán de Lis is a Spanish film actress.Torrent's debut came in 1973 with the starring role as "Ana" in the film El espíritu de la colmena directed by Víctor Erice, when she was seven years old...
- Yoyes - Ernesto AlterioErnesto AlterioErnesto Alterio is an Argentine-born Spanish film and television actor, son of Héctor Alterio and brother of Malena Alterio....
- Joxean - Florence Pernell - Hélène
- Ramón Langa - Koldo
- Iñaki Aierra - Argi
- Isabel Ordaz - Ana
- Ruth Nuñez - Bego
- Martxelo Rubio - Kizkur
- Gonzalo Gonzalo – Zaldu
Awards
- Toulouse Cinespaña: best Actor, best Actress, Special Jury Prize, 2000
- Festival de Cine de Cartagena: Best First workr Opera Prima, 2001
- Festival de Cine de Gramado: Best Latin Film, 2001
External links
- http://www.yoyes.com/english/comohizo.html