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‘Time of Silence and Destruction,’ About the Writer Who Dragged Spanish Novel Into the 20th Century, Pounced on by Filmax (EXCLUSIVE)
A portrait of novelist, psychiatrist and activist Luis Martín-Santos, the doc-feature opens San Sebastian’s Made in Spain strand.
SAN SEBASTIAN — Barcelona-based Filmax has acquired international sales rights to “Time of Silence and Destruction,” a bio-doc feature about Luis Martín-Santos who, along with great friend Juan Benet, revolutionized the Spanish novel, as James Joyce and William Faulkner had achieved decades before outside Spain. Directed by Joan López Lloret (“Hermanos Oligor”) and produced by Marta Esteban’s Imposible Films, the career long producer of Cesc Gay (“Truman,” “The People Upstairs”), in co-production with public broadcaster RTVE, “Time of Silence and Destruction” world premieres at the year’s San Sebastián Festival, opening its Made in Spain strand on Sept. 21. Martín-Santos just so happens to be a writer I’m very fond of because he wrote a book that my late grandfather used to force me to read!” said Ivan Díaz, Filmax head of international.
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