Presented the documentary that recovers the memory of the anti-francoist abades
- The Donostia-San Sebastian Film and Human Rights Festival has presented the Cura Prison, which narrates the struggle of the anti-Francoist abades imprisoned in Zamora during the dictatorship.
The audiovisual Apaiz Kartzela, carried out by Oier Aranzabal, David Pallarès and Ritxi Lizartza, was screened for the first time at the Main Theatre of Donostia-San Sebastián in the programming of the 18 edition of the Film and Human Rights Festival. The documentary tells the story of the Abades imprisoned in the priestly prison of Zamora, condemned for their anti-Francoist and disobedient struggle. Several of his priests have been present in the press, including some of the protagonists of the documentary, such as Xabier Amuriza and Josu Naberan, among others.
The prison in Zamora was the only prison in the world created on purpose to punish them by the Franco regime and between 1968 and 1976 dozens of Basque priests were held there for many years, among other things because in their sermons they denounced the position of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church with Franco. Spain and the Vatican signed the agreement in 1953 and as a result of this a new pavilion was built in Zamora's prison, as it was the only option to recruit anti-Francoist abades.
The first priest incarcerated was Alberto Gabikagogeaskoa, referring to the torture suffered by the Basques in one of his homily of 1968: “We left the seminar thinking that we had to abandon politics and pray. But we realized that Franco had two fundamental pillars: capitalism and the Church,” he says in part of the documentary.
Many of these priests were the ones who, precisely with the Indarra group, carried out in 1968 the famous encierros in the bishopric of Bilbao and in the seminary of Derio. Although his struggle was well known in the 1960s, most of society has subsequently forgotten it. The 16 priests joined the Argentinian lawsuit opened in 2013 by the Argentine judge María Servini of Cubría to try the crimes of Franco.
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