Republicans and nationals against zombies

• SERIES.'The Walking Dead ': the zombies that never die

In the middle of the trench, some bored republican soldiers exchange tobacco with the Francoist enemy in exchange for rolling paper.

It was a scene from

(1985)

, one of the first comic approaches to the Civil War.

Now Reds and Nationals are forcibly uniting to fight an army of the undead.

(and some nuns) involved, like mixing Berlanga with

: that's

, the film by

and

that opens today the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival Fantastic of Sitges.

Nationals and Republicans Fighting Together?

It is science fiction.

They are irreconcilable sides, but due to the situation they have no choice but to make a truce, a parenthesis.

Then the differences will return ... War is the framework in which we put the characters, who

, ”explains De Toro.

is pure genre cinema with a touch of series B. "Almost all zombie films have that spirit of series B, we wanted a commercial and accessible film, avoiding political readings", admits De Toro.

Based on the novel

by Manuel Martín, the film is the antithesis of the traditional, realistic and dramatic image of war.

Of course the war was a tragedy, many movies have already explored it.

But 80 years have passed, it can also be explained from humor and the fantastic.

In the United States they do it constantly: they put Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires in a movie and nothing happens ”, claims Ruiz Caldena.

Malnazidos

begins with a Nazi experiment in a remote Spanish town.

And a near-execution.

It is not a traitor or a red man who is on the wall in front of the nationals but

who in his normal life was a lawyer (played by

, who spends the film dressed as a kind of Indiana Jones with leather jacket).

To get rid of the execution, they send him on a suicide mission in the middle of no-man's-land, where he will first run into a Republican detachment and then a horde of the undead.

«It is not usual for the protagonist to be from the national side.

But fascism is not being whitewashed, nor is there a Manichean or one-color vision, ”says Ruiz Caldena.

The directors vindicate it as a choral film, with characters that, as

films

are gradually falling apart.

"They are all protagonists, the bastards of the title who have had the bad luck of being born in that tragic time, who have seen themselves in a war in which they did not want to be," says De Toro.

Reds or nationals, zombies don't understand uniforms.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

• movie theater

• culture

• Catalonia

Clothes HangingChristopher Nolan: the personal keys to his success

CineMadonna is preparing a film about "the incredible journey" of her life with Diablo Cody as co-writer

San Sebastian FestivalAaron Sorkin: "There is nothing more American than protesting"

See links of interest

• Last News

• English translator

• TV programming

• Quixote

• Movies TV

• Topics

• Portugal - Spain, live

• 6th stage of the Giro d'Italia, live: Castrovillari - Matera

• Casademont Zaragoza - San Pablo Burgos

• Real Madrid - Valencia Basket