'La bala' is filmed, a film about democratic memory

Carlos Iglesias ('Un Franco, 14 pesetas') is behind the cameras for the fifth time to shoot 'La bala', a film inspired by a true story that led to the creation of an association that helps bring to Spain the bodies of Spanish soldiers who are still buried in Russia, and which has the support of the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory.

In tone of police thriller, The bullet brings us the story of characters who, searching close a wound from the past, they will gradually encounter the consequences of their actions, which will shake their most deeply-rooted beliefs. The cast, led by Carlos Iglesias himself playing the priest Julián, is made up of key names from our scene such as Silvia Marsó, Carlos Hipólito, Eloisa Vargas, Roberto Álvarez, Miguel Rellán or Manuel Morón and the young actresses Paula Iglesias and Elisa Hipólito.

The bullet It is a production of Juan Gona, responsible for titles such as Get away from me, by Víctor Gª León; The Knight Don Quixote, by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; The year of the flood, by Jaime Chávarri; Oviedo Express, by Gonzalo Suárez; The dead are not touched, baby, by Jose Luis Ga Sanchez, or The year of fury, by Rafa Russo, among others. Gona also produced the film 2 francs 40 pesetas by Carlos Iglesias.

The movie, filmed in locations in the Community of Madrid, Ciudad Rodrigo and the city of Toledo, is inspired by the true story of two brothers from Toledo, Fernando and Miguel Ángel Garrido Polonio, who promised their grandmother that they would bring to Spain the mortal remains of her son, a Blue Division volunteer who died in Russia during World War II. However, they went much further and, after achieving their goal in 1998, they founded an association from which they help bring to Spain the bodies of all the Spanish soldiers who are still buried in Russia. All deliveries of the bodies of the deceased are carried out in Toledo, in the Carmelite church.

The Bullet has the participation of RTVE and the support of the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, which assures that the film “can be of great importance for the historical and democratic memory of our country” also doing so from “both sides of a complex reality.” The feature film will hit theaters next summer distributed by Syldavia.