138 seconds
Director Joan Lopez LLoret
Countries Spain, Mexico
Duration 72 min
Synopsis
This is the story of a several-time European boxing champion, once world championship contender, and presidential bodyguard in the years of the Spanish Republic. A simple man, born and raised in Barcelona, who fled, accused of torture, leaving behind a wife and daughter, and settled in Mexico. He would never return, remaining there for over thirty years, when an ex-amateur Spanish boxer with the same name as the champ confessed that it was he who had tortured people. Years later, only a plaque fastened to his house commemorates his birthplace. His daughter never found out why he never came back to Barcelona. What happened in Mexico? Why didn’t he return? Why don’t we remember him?
This is the story of a several-time European boxing champion, once world championship contender, and presidential bodyguard in the years of the Spanish Republic. A simple man, born and raised in Barcelona, who fled, accused of torture, leaving behind a wife and daughter, and settled in Mexico. He would never return, remaining there for over thirty years, when an ex-amateur Spanish boxer with the same name as the champ confessed that it was he who had tortured people. Years later, only a plaque fastened to his house commemorates his birthplace. His daughter never found out why he never came back to Barcelona. What happened in Mexico? Why didn’t he return? Why don’t we remember him?