Ogro (1979)

Original title

Operación Ogro

Directed by

Gillo Pontecorvo

Genre

drama film, thriller film, political thriller film

Country

France, Italy, Spain

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

16

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the early 1970s in Spain, a group of people plan and carry out a political assassination. The film follows their careful preparations and the moral weight of their actions.

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What happens

Operación Ogro is a 1979 Spanish and Italian drama film written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The film is based on true events in Spain during the early 1970s and is based on the eponymous book by Julen Agirre (pseudonym of Eva Forest). The film won the David di Donatello (an annual Italian motion picture award) for Best Film. All the actors, a mix of Spaniards and Italians, spoke Spanish in the dubbed version released in Spain, and Italian in the dubbed Italian version. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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