The Silence of Others is a harrowing look at the victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s regime that lasted for four decades.
I think the subject of the film picked me. This issue, because it was completely forgotten in Spain, rather in denial, it was not something we discussed or organised around or even talked about. As I started making other films, in other parts of the world, there was this growing pain inside me. It was like, how can I make films in other parts of the world and my own country has this issue?
Some of the characters that we filmed were in the process. Like for example, the old woman in the road. But it was through the process as we see in the film that her daughter decides to take the baton and continue their struggle. That’s why we always say a lot of the characters chose us as well, by participating more, by engaging, by being part of the story – they ended up being filmed more for the film and they turned out to be characters.
So we realised that that film both had to lay out the personal stories, and piece by piece it had to assemble this bigger puzzle of how all of these different crimes are connected and why they’ve been covered up. Why there’s this silence and forgetting and denial about what has happened.At the same time, I don’t know if this is a direct answer but we wanted the film to be beautiful.
Along the judicial law there was a more or less sort of pact, an establishment of a pact, of forgetting, the Pact of Silence . Where the society, meaning political parties, decided to impose a forgetting which means this is not going to be talked about, this is not going to be discussed, this is not going to be taught in schools, and it’s not going to be in the political agenda. And that’s exactly what happened.
What’s interesting is that in Spain, when a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzon, was one of the pioneers in using universal jurisdiction to pursue human rights crimes and he issued an indictment for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet which is part of why Pinochet was detained in London for more than 500 days.
Do you think there’s a risk of a government saying they don’t recognise the result of an international trial?Actually that’s exactly what happened in Spain. I mean in a certain sense the Argentine judge Maria Cervino De Cubria has issued extradition requests, say “I want the accused torturer Billy the Kid, I want these other people extradited to Argentina.”
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