September 1975. Franco has signed his last death sentences. In Sweden an 8 year old boy took part in his first ever demonstration. On TV he had heard prime minister Olof Palme calling the Franco regime "Satan`s murderes" and predicting that " the historical veredict will be terribly harsh".
In MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE that boy and his friend travel around Spain 30 years later, trying to understand the trauma of a country they love. The ask questions about a past was swept under the carpet by a pact of silence.
In the south the meet Mari Carmen España. She has taken the historical verdict into her own hands, refusing to accept that that her murdered grandfather lies in an unmarked mass grave under a pile of garbage. They find the instigator of the mass murder buried beneath the world's biggest Cross in the heart of Spain. A monumental symbol of christianity, but also the largest fascist monument the world has ever seen.
MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE is a documentary roadmovie in rental cars.
Knocking on doors of monks, mayors anda common people, this quest for the harsh historical cerdict, that Palme predicted, crosses the entire country.
MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country trises to amputate its past. Confronting politicians from both left and right, as well as the Catholic church, the travelling Swedes finally get questioned themselves.
In MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE that boy and his friend travel around Spain 30 years later, trying to understand the trauma of a country they love. The ask questions about a past was swept under the carpet by a pact of silence.
In the south the meet Mari Carmen España. She has taken the historical verdict into her own hands, refusing to accept that that her murdered grandfather lies in an unmarked mass grave under a pile of garbage. They find the instigator of the mass murder buried beneath the world's biggest Cross in the heart of Spain. A monumental symbol of christianity, but also the largest fascist monument the world has ever seen.
MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE is a documentary roadmovie in rental cars.
Knocking on doors of monks, mayors anda common people, this quest for the harsh historical cerdict, that Palme predicted, crosses the entire country.
MARI CARMEN- THE END OF SILENCE is the story of what happens when a country trises to amputate its past. Confronting politicians from both left and right, as well as the Catholic church, the travelling Swedes finally get questioned themselves.
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