Inés París is filming a thriller set during the great flood of Valencia in 1957
Inés París (‘The Night My Mother Killed My Father’) is shooting ‘Olvido’, a thriller set in mud and mud during the great Valencia flood of 1957. The film stars María Caballero, Morgan Blasco, Jorge Cabrera, Carlos Olalla, Magüi Mira and Javier Butler, among others.
‘Olvido’ is based on a script by Fermín Palacios (also executive producer of the film), which was initially to be a comic strip. However, after it was verified that it was a rich enough story that it could do a lot more, it was decided to turn it into a screenplay to make it into a movie.
It all starts when a series of corpses appear in Valencia after the flood of October 14, 1957. It is clear that they did not drown. A journalist, Olvido Granell, and a sergeant of Franco’s armed police, Joaquín Caplliure, will try to solve the mystery, setting aside their obvious differences. She is one of the few female journalists in one of the most repressive stages of the dictatorship, while serving the regime’s armed forces, all in the middle of a Valencia submerged in mud and misery from the massive flood: dozens of missing people growing desperate wanted by their relatives, disoriented neighbors and even food thieves…
Strong documentation was collected for the filming: «The stories we have been able to collect speak of a chaotic and miserable Valencia, but also of a very supportive Valencian people. We wanted to show all this in the film,” recalls Fermín Palacios.
“The story is about memory, remembering and forgetting. How the Franco regime minimized something as unbelievable as the flooding, but also self-imposed oblivion,” continues Palacios, emphasizing that “I wanted to tell a story that hadn’t happened, but which the viewer felt could have happened, even the doubt remains whether it could ever have happened and was not discovered by the silence and petty truth of the Franco regime. At the moment, among the younger generations there are even people who do not know that there was a flood in Valencia,” concludes the screenwriter and producer.
The protagonist María Caballero, the journalist Olvido in the film, reveals: «My character is a woman who wants and needs to feel professionally fulfilled as a man would be at that moment». About filming, he adds: “There are a lot of scenes that push you to the limit, sometimes it’s exhausting, but at the same time it’s an honor to defend this character. Oblivion’s role is to constantly affirm his quest for the truth, no matter what happens and who falls.
The film was shot between Sueca, Valencia, Burjassot and Sagunto, although the main location is the old Elcano factory in Manises, an old marine motor vessel that was in operation in the 50s and 60s and where no intervention has been done since then, so it has been preserved as it was in 1957. The flood has been recreated there and up to 19 different sets have been built as if they were different parts of the city, with a morgue, a prison, the police station, the police station, the newspaper office or a development room.
The film is presented as a one hundred percent Valencian production by La Dalia Films, with the support of the Institut Valencià de Cultura and À Punt Media, the Valencian Television, as well as with the collaboration of the State Society for Industrial Participations (SEPI), the Ministry of Defense, Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana and other entities.
Source: La Verdad
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