Josep
- 2020
- 1h 11m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.A dying gendarme remembers his encounter with Catalan artist Josep Bartolí in a French concentration camp after the Spanish Civil War.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 7 nominations
Sergi López
- Josep Bartoli
- (voice)
Emmanuel Vottero
- Martin
- (voice)
- …
Xavier Serrano
- Helios
- (voice)
David Marsais
- Valentin
- (voice)
Thomas Vandenberghe
- Le père de Valentin
- (voice)
- (as Thomas VDB)
- …
Bruno Solo
- Serge
- (voice)
François Morel
- Robert
- (voice)
Alain Cauchi
- Léon
- (voice)
Bamar Kane
- Tirailleur sénégalais
- (voice)
- (as Pape Bamar Kane)
Sílvia Pérez Cruz
- Bertillia
- (voice)
- …
Alba Pujol
- Micaela
- (voice)
- …
Sophia Aram
- L'infirmière
- (voice)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaAward: Gan Foundation Award for Film Distribution 2020.
- ConnectionsReferenced in AniMat's Crazy Cartoon Cast: The Sega Smol Boi (2020)
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Art as resistance and testimony
In 1939, the Spanish refugees persecuted by Franco, once they crossed the Pyrenees, were confined by the French government in concentration camps.
This tough animated film by Aurel narrates the meeting of Serge, a French gendarme, with the Catalan cartoonist and painter Josep Bartoli (in the voice of Sergi López) in a prison camp in Perpignan and the friendship that developed between them.
The film is structured as a flash back based on the story that an elderly Serge tells his grandson. The line of the drawing is sober and corresponds to the dryness of this atypical biopic.
The film's bleak atmosphere and its portrayal of the horrors of the camp are at times overwhelming. His notes on the political universe of the time are also accurate, with a triumphant Franco regime and a spectrum of Spanish refugees where the political differences between them appear, reflect on the limits of obedience, suffer the devastating force of prejudice, emerge the value of piety and solidarity and art stands out as salvation and testimony.
It is in the camp where most of the story takes place, which in no way exhausts the odyssey suffered by Bartoli, who at one point expressed: "if these great ideas do not find a good person, they become death"
This tough animated film by Aurel narrates the meeting of Serge, a French gendarme, with the Catalan cartoonist and painter Josep Bartoli (in the voice of Sergi López) in a prison camp in Perpignan and the friendship that developed between them.
The film is structured as a flash back based on the story that an elderly Serge tells his grandson. The line of the drawing is sober and corresponds to the dryness of this atypical biopic.
The film's bleak atmosphere and its portrayal of the horrors of the camp are at times overwhelming. His notes on the political universe of the time are also accurate, with a triumphant Franco regime and a spectrum of Spanish refugees where the political differences between them appear, reflect on the limits of obedience, suffer the devastating force of prejudice, emerge the value of piety and solidarity and art stands out as salvation and testimony.
It is in the camp where most of the story takes place, which in no way exhausts the odyssey suffered by Bartoli, who at one point expressed: "if these great ideas do not find a good person, they become death"
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $1,683,009
- Runtime1 hour 11 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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