The audiovisual platform HBO has presented this Saturday at the San Sebastian Film Festival the first images of the Patria series, adaptation of Fernando Aramburu's novel, which can be seen next year. A first advance in which, as the writer and creator, Aitor Gabilondo , has advanced, you can see the "editorial line" of the project: "When the pain of others is despised, relations are poisoned . "

The presentation has also been attended by Miguel Salvat , responsible for content of HBO Spain, as well as Steve Matthews (HBO Europe) and actresses Ane Gabarain and Elena Irureta , who in the series give life to the two sisters around the which is the history of Homeland . Both have done a very intense work, as Gabarain has detailed: "For us, it is very strong, because we have worked with all the love and all the pain. We have built among all the characters. And we have tried to humanize them more than they appeared in the book".

Salvat has explained one of the "most important" decisions of adaptation, which is to keep the same actors for the same characters throughout a story that spans three decades. Two families (that of Txato and Bittori, on the one hand, and that of Miren and Joxian, on the other) go from friendship to distancing because of a murder committed by ETA.

Images of an assassination of ETA and the torture infringed against members of the abertzale environment have passed through the screen of the Kursaal press room to try to unravel "a first-division technical and artistic work" , but also "a universal history which is told from a very specific place, "in the words of Salvat. A woman prostrated before her husband's body, shouting for help without anyone coming to help her; a young man naked and crying on the floor in a police room. In both cases, "his pain is neglected and ignored , " Gabilondo said. "And that makes them dig into their pain"

"Violence destroys everything, to the one who exercises it and to the one who suffers it," Gabilondo has ruled on the audiovisual approach to this story, which has been endorsed by Fernando Aramburu , although he has preferred "not to get into anything" of the Translation to images of his work. Therefore, although it was intended to respect the original spirit of his work, there are new readings and approaches. "Violence," Gabilondo has insisted, "is a shock wave that eats everything up. And that looks good in this story of two modest families, two women who manage to overcome it with a lot of pain and many doubts. They begin separated by a bullet and they end up with a shy hug . They decide to close with the cycle of revenge. It is not the only possibility, but the one that I think is the most opportune. "

That is why, according to him, it has been so important to shoot in the scenarios where the action takes place, in that town without a name, but which can be recognized in so many abertzales political fiefdoms. Or in San Sebastián itself, where "there are still open wounds." So, even if it is a "challenge" to face it , "the moment of 'Homeland' is now."

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