HBO launches the trailer of Homeland remembering the victims of ETA

• Controversy. Rain of criticism of HBO for the 'Patria' poster that shows an ETA victim and a tortured ETA member

• Reaction.Fernando Aramburu: "The Patria cartel is a mistake, a marketing strategy that I do not share"

• Lucía Méndez's opinion: 'Homeland' is 'Homeland'

• Minister of the Interior. Marlaska criticizes the Patria cartel and defends "the dignity of the victims"

HBO continues to feed the promotional machinery of

with the publication of the

for the series, a video that arrives in the middle of the dust raised by a

criticized for showing, in the same image, the victims of ETA and their executioners.

The

, of just a minute and a half,

and thousands of wounded from the terrorist gang, pointing out in the texts inserted in the images the 52 years of terror that the gang exercised in Spain.

The series, based on the best-selling novel by

, tells the story of two families divided by the consequences of ETA violence.

And as the trailer indicates, it begins by telling how Bittori, the widow of a businessman murdered by the terrorist organization, returns to her village when ETA announced the end of the armed activity.

HBO will

.

But this week it has received criticism for the materials chosen to announce the series.

"We are all part of this story," read the message published by HBO Spain on its social networks on September 1 next to an image that, on the one hand, shows a woman crying, with her dying husband in her arms, after suffering an attack from ETA and, from the other, a naked man in a room, apparently a terrorist tortured by the police.

Frame of the new trailer for 'Homeland' HBO

Aramburu himself considered this poster a "mistake" that he attributed to a

by HBO that he does not share.

"It violates a rule that I imposed on myself when I wrote my book: not to lose sight of the pain of the victims of terrorism, to treat them with the empathy and affection they deserve. The series, in my opinion, does," he said in defense of production, which has your approval.

"There are one or two sequences that squeak at me; but

, with a clear dividing line between who suffers and who makes suffer," he said about the series on his blog .

And in this sense, he added: "The passages of the filming in which scenes of ETA attacks are shown are explicit and are clearly linked to the ideology that led to them, leaving no room for justifying lucubrations."

Many politicians publicly rejected the poster on their social media.

The

criticized him saying that it was "a humiliation to the victims of terrorism", while the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grade-Marlaska pointed out that "there is no room for equidistance. As a Basque and Spanish citizen, ethics and dignity must be respected. of the victims of terrorism because they are an example of freedom. "

The HBO platform itself responded to the commotion

generated and to the boycott campaign on social networks #CancelaHBO with a statement where it stated: "Patria's promotional image aims to reflect how violence and suffering affect an entire society. When we deal with complex issues in our series, we trust the good judgment of our audience to judge them once they have seen them in their entirety. It is no different in this case. "

A year ago Aitor Gabilondo, responsible for the adaptation and veteran television creator behind series such as

or

, presented at the San Sebastián Festival a first preview of

with these same images where you could already appreciate the "editorial line "of the project:

.

As he explained then, in both cases, "their pain is despised and ignored (...) and that causes them to become entrenched in their pain."

Gabilondo insisted, "it is an expansive wave that is eating away at everything. And that looks good in this story of two modest families, two women who manage to defeat it with a lot. pain and many doubts. They begin separated by a bullet and end with a timid hug. They decide to close with the cycle of revenge. It is not the only possibility, but it is the one that I think is most appropriate, "he said.

In September 2017, HBO Spain announced the production of the series

.

and scriptwriter of fiction, which he also produces through his company, Alea Media, owned by Mediaset España.

With the premiere of

scheduled

for last May, the coronavirus crisis forced the date to be delayed until next September 27.

in Europe and America, including the United States.

Félix Viscarret (Under the Stars, Winds of Havana) and Óscar Pedraza (Land of Wolves) direct the drama, which is produced by Miguel Salvat, Steve Matthews and Antony Root for HBO Europe.

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