Director: David Serrano Blanquer
Production: Zeroiú (Guillem Pueyo i Valentí Ponsa)
Barcelona, 2009
Duration: 39 minutes
Premiere: Montevideo Universidad ORT Uruguay, setembre 2009.
Sinopsys:
Juan Camacho Ferrer was born in Andalusia (Gádor, 1919). As a child he migrated to France and then he moved to Barcelona after the fascist uprising of the 18th of July 1936.
With his brother, who will eventually die in a battle, he enlisted as a volunteer and fought on the Ebro front. After the Civil War he ended up in the French concentration camps and then he enlisted again as a volunteer to fight against the German army on the front at the border with Belgium.
Defeated and taken prisoner by the Nazis, he is taken into the VII Stalag A camp and finally deported to Mauthausen, where he survives for 4 years. After the camp’s liberation he lived in various places in France, where he becomes interested in his later passion: sewing. Culture against brutality: this is what he discovered while wearing the striped camp uniform. Being unable to build a promising future, in 1950 he accepts the proposal of the Argentinean government to establish himself in Buenos Aires, however 5 months later his instinct tells him to cross the Río de la Plata. There he finds his future, his love and passion for Uruguay. Moreover, during the dictatorship, he sides with the Frente Amplio, thus being committed with democracy until his death. At 88 he decides to return to Mauthausen for the first time.
