1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:25,167 --> 00:00:27,125 The only true voyage of discovery 4 00:00:27,208 --> 00:00:29,208 is not to visit strange lands, 5 00:00:29,292 --> 00:00:31,708 but to behold through the eyes of another. 6 00:00:31,792 --> 00:00:32,792 Marcel Proust 7 00:00:34,792 --> 00:00:38,167 This is one of the most ancient examples of art 8 00:00:38,250 --> 00:00:40,250 of which there are records. 9 00:00:40,875 --> 00:00:43,667 In these magical-religious cave paintings, 10 00:00:43,750 --> 00:00:46,958 our ancestors wished to leave a record of the most 11 00:00:47,083 --> 00:00:49,500 characteristic events of their lives: 12 00:00:49,625 --> 00:00:53,125 hunting, death, sex. 13 00:00:53,958 --> 00:00:56,292 We can also often find their handprints, 14 00:00:56,375 --> 00:00:59,875 a sort of "I was here" of the time. 15 00:01:00,583 --> 00:01:03,208 These men and women were nomads, 16 00:01:03,292 --> 00:01:05,958 the cave paintings a way of telling their story 17 00:01:06,083 --> 00:01:09,125 and remain eternal up to the present day. 18 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,500 I've always been very curious about the world. 19 00:01:14,583 --> 00:01:17,625 That curiosity led me to be a non-conformist. 20 00:01:17,750 --> 00:01:19,917 When you can't adapt to reality, 21 00:01:20,042 --> 00:01:22,417 you fight so that reality adapts to you. 22 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:24,500 That is why I find filmmaking exciting. 23 00:01:24,583 --> 00:01:28,375 Pressing rec, be it on a professional camera or a mobile, 24 00:01:28,458 --> 00:01:29,750 is hard to beat. 25 00:01:30,833 --> 00:01:34,042 Life is cinema, just waiting for someone to capture it. 26 00:01:34,833 --> 00:01:37,083 Filming and then toying with those images 27 00:01:37,167 --> 00:01:39,083 like a child playing with Lego, 28 00:01:39,208 --> 00:01:41,500 building something new with the same pieces, 29 00:01:41,583 --> 00:01:43,417 is my reason for being. 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,500 I moved to Madrid two years ago to fulfil 31 00:01:47,583 --> 00:01:49,792 my dream of becoming a film director. 32 00:01:49,917 --> 00:01:51,542 Along with my mate Edu, 33 00:01:51,667 --> 00:01:54,042 I spend my days writing our films and series 34 00:01:54,125 --> 00:01:56,458 with blind faith that they will be produced. 35 00:01:56,542 --> 00:01:58,708 Sometimes that can be so frustrating. 36 00:01:58,792 --> 00:01:59,875 I feel a bit lost. 37 00:02:02,833 --> 00:02:05,375 I often wonder if all this effort is worth it, 38 00:02:05,458 --> 00:02:08,667 or if I should do something that might help people. 39 00:02:09,292 --> 00:02:11,708 I compare myself to my peers. 40 00:02:11,833 --> 00:02:14,833 Most have stable jobs, mortgages. 41 00:02:14,917 --> 00:02:17,958 Some already have kids. Now that is a movie. 42 00:02:18,083 --> 00:02:19,583 I make do with the basics. 43 00:02:19,667 --> 00:02:21,542 I have what I need to create. 44 00:02:22,292 --> 00:02:25,958 A roof over my head, food, money to go out now and again, 45 00:02:26,042 --> 00:02:28,083 go to the cinema or buy a book. 46 00:02:29,542 --> 00:02:32,500 Those of my generation who lead an uneventful life 47 00:02:32,625 --> 00:02:34,833 can enjoy moderate happiness. 48 00:02:34,917 --> 00:02:36,542 I envy that ability to adapt, 49 00:02:36,667 --> 00:02:39,333 but I couldn't get up every morning knowing 50 00:02:39,458 --> 00:02:42,625 my day will be the same as yesterday and the day after. 51 00:02:44,167 --> 00:02:47,042 This brought to mind my granddad, Antonio, 52 00:02:47,125 --> 00:02:49,958 a street urchin and homeless until he married. 53 00:02:50,083 --> 00:02:52,167 I can't get him out of my mind. 54 00:02:52,667 --> 00:02:54,042 When just a kid, 55 00:02:54,167 --> 00:02:59,042 he walked hundreds of miles through Spain with his father to get by. 56 00:02:59,125 --> 00:03:01,375 The route that most marked him 57 00:03:01,458 --> 00:03:03,917 was from Valencia to the Pyrenees in Aragon. 58 00:03:06,250 --> 00:03:09,000 Granddad spent a few years writing his memoirs, 59 00:03:09,083 --> 00:03:11,833 but quit because the memories upset him 60 00:03:11,917 --> 00:03:13,917 and he was never able to continue. 61 00:03:17,625 --> 00:03:20,333 I phoned him and suggested we could take 62 00:03:20,417 --> 00:03:22,542 the same route to the Pyrenees, 63 00:03:22,625 --> 00:03:24,375 but 75 years later. 64 00:03:25,292 --> 00:03:28,792 I hope to recover the memories trapped in his mind 65 00:03:28,917 --> 00:03:32,042 and maybe help him to finish writing his book. 66 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:35,667 I want to recapture the thrill of picking up a camera 67 00:03:35,792 --> 00:03:39,042 and filming spontaneously with the same emotion 68 00:03:39,125 --> 00:03:41,375 I felt when I was little and went out 69 00:03:41,458 --> 00:03:43,042 with my dad's video camera. 70 00:03:43,125 --> 00:03:46,458 Incidentally, it's the same camera filming me now. 71 00:03:47,083 --> 00:03:51,000 My granddad loves the idea. He's really excited. 72 00:03:51,083 --> 00:03:54,125 I've roped in Edu and my sister Carla to join me. 73 00:04:07,292 --> 00:04:09,792 ROCA NEIGHBOURHOOD 74 00:04:40,083 --> 00:04:41,500 And... action! 75 00:04:41,958 --> 00:04:45,458 On 8 March 1940, 76 00:04:45,542 --> 00:04:48,250 at 51 El Cid Street, 77 00:04:48,375 --> 00:04:50,000 in Albacete, 78 00:04:50,083 --> 00:04:53,167 Sebastiana gives birth to a baby boy. 79 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:56,875 I am that baby boy: Antonio Castaño Balboa, 80 00:04:56,958 --> 00:05:02,292 son of Manuel and Sebastiana. The one writing this story. 81 00:05:02,375 --> 00:05:04,875 - Ready for the trip? - Yes, sir. 82 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,125 Completely ready. 83 00:05:10,417 --> 00:05:12,250 Shortly after the war ended, 84 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:15,375 there was nothing but misery everywhere 85 00:05:15,458 --> 00:05:18,083 for those with nothing. 86 00:05:18,167 --> 00:05:22,083 However, there was no choice but to carry on somehow. 87 00:05:23,708 --> 00:05:27,417 My parents left Albacete because they had nothing there. 88 00:05:27,500 --> 00:05:31,083 They were told that they'd be better off in Valencia. 89 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:36,667 You can imagine how hard it must be to move 90 00:05:36,750 --> 00:05:40,500 to a place where you know nobody and have nowhere to stay. 91 00:05:43,083 --> 00:05:46,333 At that time, the Turia riverbed 92 00:05:46,417 --> 00:05:50,417 was full of families living near the banks 93 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,833 and under the bridges. 94 00:05:53,625 --> 00:05:56,250 They had nowhere to wash clothes 95 00:05:56,375 --> 00:05:58,792 or do their basic necessities. 96 00:05:59,708 --> 00:06:03,250 We moved there and my father made a living 97 00:06:03,333 --> 00:06:04,917 looking for scrap metal. 98 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,333 Meanwhile, my mother's job was looking after me. 99 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 There were more and more hardships 100 00:06:14,083 --> 00:06:17,292 and my parents started rowing, 101 00:06:17,375 --> 00:06:20,917 until one day my mother left when I was just two. 102 00:06:21,042 --> 00:06:24,500 By order of the court, I had to stay with my father. 103 00:06:27,833 --> 00:06:31,625 I never met any of my close relatives. 104 00:06:31,708 --> 00:06:35,083 My only family was always my father. 105 00:06:36,542 --> 00:06:40,083 We carried on with our lives, just the two of us. 106 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:43,500 He took me everywhere with him on foot. 107 00:06:44,667 --> 00:06:46,958 As soon as he made some money, 108 00:06:47,042 --> 00:06:50,250 the first thing he did was buy me something to eat. 109 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,208 Some days he went hungry, but I always had food. 110 00:06:58,917 --> 00:07:02,333 My father divided Valencia into areas and days 111 00:07:02,458 --> 00:07:04,583 for collecting scrap metal, 112 00:07:04,667 --> 00:07:07,167 which he then went on to sell. 113 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:12,125 The routes lasted from one day to one week 114 00:07:12,208 --> 00:07:15,333 when we walked over 50 miles. 115 00:07:17,250 --> 00:07:21,708 My father tried to make a living whatever way he could, 116 00:07:21,833 --> 00:07:24,458 doing anything other than stealing. 117 00:07:24,542 --> 00:07:28,458 But even so, you had to keep your eye out for the Civil Guard. 118 00:07:29,333 --> 00:07:33,833 I saw them beat up my father for begging on the street. 119 00:07:33,917 --> 00:07:36,583 You could tell they enjoyed doing it. 120 00:07:39,875 --> 00:07:43,375 In the afternoons, I would play with other children. 121 00:07:43,458 --> 00:07:47,375 When it was time to eat, they went off with their families 122 00:07:47,458 --> 00:07:52,542 and I went to sleep with my father wherever we had shelter that night. 123 00:08:03,667 --> 00:08:05,875 - No, not that one. - No? 124 00:08:06,333 --> 00:08:08,833 - It's not that cold. - Yes, but... 125 00:08:08,917 --> 00:08:11,292 - It's not cold. - This has no sleeves. 126 00:08:11,375 --> 00:08:15,500 - It doesn't matter. - Whatever madam wants. 127 00:08:19,292 --> 00:08:20,292 Out of the way. 128 00:08:21,833 --> 00:08:23,250 What's this? 129 00:08:23,333 --> 00:08:26,250 - They'll end up all creased. - OK. 130 00:08:27,167 --> 00:08:29,583 This way... 131 00:08:31,833 --> 00:08:33,333 I'll do it in the end. 132 00:08:34,708 --> 00:08:37,167 - It's not this way, either. - Let me. 133 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:39,708 - That's the way. - Done. 134 00:08:40,833 --> 00:08:42,333 Goddamn it! 135 00:08:42,417 --> 00:08:43,958 Done and dusted. 136 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:47,792 Hey! What's up? 137 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:49,625 - All good? - Are we going? 138 00:08:49,708 --> 00:08:51,792 - We're going right away. - All good? 139 00:08:51,875 --> 00:08:53,375 - Fine. - Nervous? 140 00:08:53,458 --> 00:08:55,000 When I turned eight, 141 00:08:55,083 --> 00:08:58,250 all my friends took their first communion. 142 00:08:58,333 --> 00:09:00,875 But not me, I didn't have money, 143 00:09:00,958 --> 00:09:03,125 not even to buy the suit. 144 00:09:03,208 --> 00:09:06,750 After a while, since my father never settled anywhere 145 00:09:06,833 --> 00:09:10,000 and didn't like to be in one place for too long, 146 00:09:10,083 --> 00:09:13,500 he decided we'd go and look for work in Pamplona. 147 00:09:13,583 --> 00:09:15,292 No, of course not! 148 00:09:15,375 --> 00:09:20,208 What we didn't know at the time was, just like when Columbus 149 00:09:20,292 --> 00:09:23,458 went in search of the East Indies and discovered America, 150 00:09:23,542 --> 00:09:27,083 we would end up in a very different place. 151 00:10:02,417 --> 00:10:07,458 THE ART OF ILLITERATES 152 00:10:07,708 --> 00:10:10,458 - Now? - But look at me, tell it to me. 153 00:10:10,833 --> 00:10:15,958 So anyway, my father decided to go to Tortosa, 154 00:10:16,917 --> 00:10:20,583 and since I always went where he did, 155 00:10:20,667 --> 00:10:24,625 we went to Tortosa in a freight train. 156 00:10:26,042 --> 00:10:27,125 As soon... 157 00:10:27,208 --> 00:10:28,833 - As stowaways? - As stowaways. 158 00:10:29,667 --> 00:10:31,792 As soon as we climbed aboard, 159 00:10:31,875 --> 00:10:34,708 we took the last wagon where there was a sentry box, 160 00:10:34,792 --> 00:10:37,833 and that was where we hid without anyone seeing us. 161 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:40,458 That's how we got to Tortosa. 162 00:10:49,333 --> 00:10:53,458 We took the train from Valencia and arrived in Tortosa 163 00:10:53,583 --> 00:10:55,667 at nine in the evening. 164 00:10:56,458 --> 00:10:58,458 We came here, 165 00:10:58,542 --> 00:11:02,000 you could hear the sound of festivities: 166 00:11:02,083 --> 00:11:05,750 rifle ranges, merry-go-rounds, tombolas, 167 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:08,167 there was a dance and everything. 168 00:11:08,250 --> 00:11:10,042 Didn't you want to go on a ride? 169 00:11:10,167 --> 00:11:11,208 Me? 170 00:11:11,292 --> 00:11:14,375 How could I go on a ride 171 00:11:14,458 --> 00:11:16,875 if we didn't have money for it? 172 00:11:17,792 --> 00:11:20,708 In this part of his book, he tells how they slept 173 00:11:20,792 --> 00:11:23,375 on a stone bench in the park while listening 174 00:11:23,458 --> 00:11:25,458 to the songs coming from the fair. 175 00:11:25,583 --> 00:11:28,750 He remembers one song in particular: Sombrero en mano. 176 00:11:29,375 --> 00:11:32,000 I think we found the same stone bench online 177 00:11:32,083 --> 00:11:33,458 and the song. 178 00:11:34,375 --> 00:11:37,542 And my father said, "We'll sleep here." 179 00:11:37,625 --> 00:11:39,625 On this very bench. 180 00:11:41,083 --> 00:11:44,125 He sat up just like I am now, 181 00:11:44,208 --> 00:11:46,333 and I lay down on his right. 182 00:11:46,417 --> 00:11:48,458 How did you sleep on the bench? 183 00:11:48,542 --> 00:11:50,542 - Me? Here. - Show me. How? 184 00:11:50,625 --> 00:11:52,750 Like this. I lay down like this. 185 00:11:53,750 --> 00:11:55,042 This way. 186 00:11:56,500 --> 00:11:57,542 This way. 187 00:11:57,625 --> 00:12:00,208 - Is it just as comfortable? - The same. 188 00:12:02,750 --> 00:12:05,208 It has the same springs and everything. 189 00:12:05,292 --> 00:12:09,417 And a viscoelastic mattress. 190 00:12:11,875 --> 00:12:14,750 Gosh. Would you believe it? 191 00:12:18,333 --> 00:12:20,000 Listen, the music. 192 00:12:21,958 --> 00:12:23,333 Fancy that! 193 00:12:24,917 --> 00:12:27,083 We even have the music. 194 00:12:28,292 --> 00:12:30,375 They're doing it deliberately. 195 00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:32,875 They saw me. 196 00:12:36,792 --> 00:12:40,167 - What's that? - How did they do that? 197 00:12:41,417 --> 00:12:43,375 Did you put it on? 198 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,333 That's the song they were singing here at the fair. 199 00:12:57,833 --> 00:13:01,083 When we left Tortosa, we started walking 200 00:13:01,167 --> 00:13:04,625 towards Pamplona, crossing paths and roads 201 00:13:04,708 --> 00:13:06,625 and whatever was necessary. 202 00:13:06,708 --> 00:13:10,167 We were used to walking for many days at a time, 203 00:13:10,250 --> 00:13:13,292 but we had never covered such a long distance. 204 00:13:14,417 --> 00:13:17,875 The roads we travelled down now were new to us. 205 00:13:17,958 --> 00:13:20,458 The landscapes, different. 206 00:13:20,542 --> 00:13:22,333 The people, different. 207 00:13:22,833 --> 00:13:26,958 The world had become a much bigger place for me. 208 00:13:32,958 --> 00:13:38,042 We must have been walking like that for about a month or so. 209 00:13:38,125 --> 00:13:40,167 BUS STATION 210 00:13:40,625 --> 00:13:41,958 We arrived at night. 211 00:13:42,708 --> 00:13:46,583 As the bus station didn't have gates back then, 212 00:13:48,542 --> 00:13:51,042 we went in and settled down for the night. 213 00:13:51,125 --> 00:13:54,125 - Where did you sleep? - On that side. 214 00:13:59,708 --> 00:14:02,583 OK, tell me the story, Granddad. Look at me. 215 00:14:04,125 --> 00:14:05,250 Looking at you? 216 00:14:05,333 --> 00:14:08,375 That's it. Just a second. 217 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:10,375 So, tell me the story. 218 00:14:10,458 --> 00:14:13,292 As if you were telling it to someone. 219 00:14:13,708 --> 00:14:17,542 "We woke up in Barbastro." Go ahead. Whenever you're ready. 220 00:14:18,958 --> 00:14:21,708 My father and I woke up in Barbastro 221 00:14:22,208 --> 00:14:25,917 and walked down a street 222 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,208 while my father stopped to ask people. 223 00:14:28,958 --> 00:14:33,458 They told him that there might be work in Alquézar. 224 00:14:33,833 --> 00:14:37,417 So we took the road to Alquézar. 225 00:14:39,708 --> 00:14:42,667 As we didn't have a specific place to go, 226 00:14:43,083 --> 00:14:45,625 we roamed around. 227 00:14:46,292 --> 00:14:52,000 Walking through life, looking for sustenance. 228 00:14:57,167 --> 00:15:00,792 When we reached Alquézar, we knocked on a few doors 229 00:15:00,917 --> 00:15:02,875 to see if someone could help us. 230 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,292 They told us we might find work 231 00:15:06,417 --> 00:15:08,125 in some villages further on. 232 00:15:09,583 --> 00:15:13,083 I don't know if it was because of our appearance, 233 00:15:13,167 --> 00:15:15,833 but it is strange that in every village 234 00:15:15,917 --> 00:15:19,333 they always told us the same thing: there was no work, 235 00:15:19,458 --> 00:15:21,500 but we'd find some in the next village. 236 00:15:21,583 --> 00:15:22,750 Afterwards, though, 237 00:15:22,833 --> 00:15:25,792 we reached another village and they'd say the same. 238 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:33,458 We packed a sort of rucksack, each of us had a sack tied with string 239 00:15:33,958 --> 00:15:36,792 to carry some clothes in it 240 00:15:36,875 --> 00:15:41,667 and provisions to make a meal, 241 00:15:41,750 --> 00:15:43,542 but that was all. 242 00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:48,583 We have several cases with clothes, the camera, lenses, a tripod, 243 00:15:48,667 --> 00:15:52,292 radio mics, medicine, some food, a wheelbarrow, 244 00:15:52,375 --> 00:15:54,292 a computer, hard discs, 245 00:15:54,417 --> 00:15:56,125 a table and chairs, a brolly, 246 00:15:56,250 --> 00:15:58,542 a fire extinguisher, and lots of water. 247 00:15:59,042 --> 00:16:01,750 I forgot to pack waterproof clothing. 248 00:16:02,292 --> 00:16:06,958 My father carried a comb, a razor, 249 00:16:07,042 --> 00:16:09,833 shaving cream, the shaving brush... 250 00:16:09,917 --> 00:16:11,500 We would wash 251 00:16:11,625 --> 00:16:14,625 where there was water in the ravine. 252 00:16:15,458 --> 00:16:19,875 We didn't wash too much so as not to catch cold. 253 00:16:26,792 --> 00:16:30,667 If we were walking along this route and night fell, 254 00:16:30,750 --> 00:16:34,750 we'd sleep under a tree by covering ourselves up. 255 00:16:35,292 --> 00:16:40,167 Sometimes, if it wasn't under a tree, we'd find a slope 256 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:44,375 and cover the slope like this with branches. 257 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:47,708 And so we'd sleep under the branches. 258 00:16:47,833 --> 00:16:50,167 - Like Indians? - Exactly like Indians. 259 00:17:10,125 --> 00:17:13,625 Walking brings with it problems and moments of joy. 260 00:17:13,708 --> 00:17:18,542 You can come across something and say, "Wow, that's so nice." 261 00:17:19,125 --> 00:17:22,667 Things happen to the person who goes walking through life. 262 00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:25,750 Nothing happens to the person who doesn't. 263 00:17:30,458 --> 00:17:34,125 After walking from Alquézar, we reached Colungo. 264 00:17:49,375 --> 00:17:52,083 Well, this is complicated. 265 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Good Lord. 266 00:17:57,500 --> 00:17:58,958 This is tough. 267 00:17:59,875 --> 00:18:04,667 How did Granddad Manolo and I manage to reach there? 268 00:18:04,750 --> 00:18:07,000 Granddad Manolo moved like... 269 00:18:07,917 --> 00:18:09,708 He moved like... 270 00:18:10,458 --> 00:18:14,417 those vultures you see circling overhead. 271 00:18:15,292 --> 00:18:18,000 They don't know whether to land here or there. 272 00:18:18,083 --> 00:18:22,292 Look how high the vultures fly. Look, right up there. 273 00:18:24,917 --> 00:18:28,708 They're circling around to see if they can spot a chicken. 274 00:18:28,833 --> 00:18:30,500 Where are you, vultures? 275 00:18:30,583 --> 00:18:33,708 There was no destination. Even he didn't know it. 276 00:18:33,792 --> 00:18:38,000 All he knew is that we had to "keep ahead, no matter what." 277 00:18:40,583 --> 00:18:45,167 Let's see if we find something here, let's see if we find something there. 278 00:18:45,250 --> 00:18:50,083 And we certainly always found something, dear Lord. 279 00:18:50,708 --> 00:18:54,792 It's something that should have been planned back in Valencia. 280 00:18:54,875 --> 00:18:57,875 - Would it make a film? - You bet. 281 00:18:58,792 --> 00:19:00,500 How many million? 282 00:19:01,542 --> 00:19:02,792 How many? 283 00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:04,792 How much money to make the film? 284 00:19:04,875 --> 00:19:07,917 - At least two. - Two million euros? 285 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,333 Well we get it. We get it and that's that. 286 00:19:12,208 --> 00:19:14,750 We get the money wherever it is. 287 00:19:14,833 --> 00:19:16,625 We'll rob a bank if necessary. 288 00:19:17,125 --> 00:19:21,417 But wearing a mask or not? Unarmed? 289 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,875 Unarmed. At least we'll become famous that way. 290 00:19:24,958 --> 00:19:28,542 Sure. You say, "Who do you think you are? 291 00:19:28,625 --> 00:19:31,333 Come on, hand over the cash." 292 00:19:31,417 --> 00:19:34,708 And then we can use it to make a proper film. 293 00:19:34,833 --> 00:19:38,458 Werner Herzog. 294 00:19:38,542 --> 00:19:41,042 What's the book called? 295 00:19:41,167 --> 00:19:42,667 Of Walking in Ice. 296 00:19:43,333 --> 00:19:46,083 - Do you know what it's about? - No, I don't. 297 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,292 This guy is a film director I like 298 00:19:50,208 --> 00:19:54,792 who walked from Munich, in Germany, to Paris. 299 00:19:55,292 --> 00:19:57,000 - That's a lot of miles. - Sure. 300 00:19:57,083 --> 00:20:00,417 And he wrote a book about walking across the mountains, 301 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:03,500 the same as you with your father, but he was alone. 302 00:20:04,417 --> 00:20:05,792 That was in '74. 303 00:20:07,750 --> 00:20:09,000 He published this book. 304 00:20:09,625 --> 00:20:13,750 I tell him a similar case to his own to encourage him to continue writing. 305 00:20:14,792 --> 00:20:16,250 Look at him. 306 00:20:17,750 --> 00:20:20,333 He looks half crazy. 307 00:20:23,250 --> 00:20:26,750 What do you think cinema is for? 308 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:29,542 - What it's for? - What do you think it's for? 309 00:20:29,625 --> 00:20:33,000 What it's always been for: so people go along, 310 00:20:33,542 --> 00:20:37,375 they're entertained, they learn something. 311 00:20:38,375 --> 00:20:40,625 Lots of things appear on the screen, 312 00:20:40,708 --> 00:20:43,958 things you can learn from and that help 313 00:20:44,042 --> 00:20:46,625 teach you their meaning. 314 00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:51,875 Cinema isn't like a wax dummy. 315 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:55,542 When you were both travelling, did you not think 316 00:20:55,625 --> 00:20:57,875 it was similar to something in a film? 317 00:20:59,708 --> 00:21:03,542 No, because there were no films 318 00:21:03,625 --> 00:21:06,167 that reflected what we were doing. 319 00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:07,958 What type of film was yours? 320 00:21:08,042 --> 00:21:10,333 You know, our film... 321 00:21:11,208 --> 00:21:14,958 was about a couple of people drifting about. 322 00:21:15,042 --> 00:21:17,958 What genre was your film? Action? 323 00:21:18,042 --> 00:21:19,417 Ours? 324 00:21:20,167 --> 00:21:23,458 It was more about starvation 325 00:21:24,792 --> 00:21:26,375 than about action! 326 00:21:27,083 --> 00:21:29,000 About being ravenous! 327 00:21:33,958 --> 00:21:36,792 Really, really ravenous. 328 00:21:55,750 --> 00:21:58,417 Today is very important, we are finally coming to 329 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,417 one of the most exciting parts of my granddad's memoirs. 330 00:22:02,833 --> 00:22:05,833 One difficult aspect about making this documentary 331 00:22:05,917 --> 00:22:08,208 is that he has no photos from back then. 332 00:22:08,292 --> 00:22:10,917 So I feel responsible for being the first 333 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,500 to depict this journey. 334 00:22:12,583 --> 00:22:14,583 Is the radio mic receiver on? 335 00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:15,750 - Yes. - OK. 336 00:22:15,833 --> 00:22:18,417 We found a place with some of the best views 337 00:22:18,500 --> 00:22:20,750 of Betorz in the mountains, 338 00:22:20,833 --> 00:22:24,792 the town where my granddad has the most and fondest memories. 339 00:22:24,875 --> 00:22:26,583 Let's see the boot, Kevin. 340 00:22:27,458 --> 00:22:28,625 A mess. 341 00:22:29,167 --> 00:22:30,917 That's part of the adventure. 342 00:22:34,125 --> 00:22:36,250 I'm amazed right now. 343 00:22:37,458 --> 00:22:39,250 I can't stop thinking 344 00:22:40,792 --> 00:22:44,292 that we were completely crazy 345 00:22:44,375 --> 00:22:47,875 to travel along these roads up into the mountains. 346 00:22:48,875 --> 00:22:51,917 Because this is incredible. 347 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,667 If you tell someone 348 00:22:55,375 --> 00:22:58,125 that we did this, they won't believe you. 349 00:22:59,083 --> 00:23:00,833 But it's true. 350 00:23:02,917 --> 00:23:06,125 I couldn't even imagine it, and now... 351 00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:12,167 I realise that it's complete madness. 352 00:23:12,250 --> 00:23:14,333 Completely mad. 353 00:23:14,417 --> 00:23:18,625 But look, that was the way it was. 354 00:23:21,917 --> 00:23:24,917 I'll never be able to erase that memory. 355 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,708 The memory of that journey or this one, either. 356 00:23:33,583 --> 00:23:36,125 A film is never the same when you see it again. 357 00:23:36,208 --> 00:23:38,708 The same as a place when you revisit it, 358 00:23:39,333 --> 00:23:42,625 because you're a different person each time you do it. 359 00:23:45,125 --> 00:23:47,792 We can never make the same journey as he did, 360 00:23:47,875 --> 00:23:51,375 but I'll settle for the fact that he can relive the story, 361 00:23:51,458 --> 00:23:53,833 even if only for one more time. 362 00:23:56,875 --> 00:23:59,542 We took a path from Colungo. 363 00:23:59,625 --> 00:24:03,250 I don't remember if it was a few hours or a few days. 364 00:24:04,583 --> 00:24:08,000 Actually, we didn't care because we were in no rush. 365 00:24:08,083 --> 00:24:10,875 We walked until it felt right to us. 366 00:24:12,042 --> 00:24:16,458 It was December 1949 and we'd been walking for two months. 367 00:24:18,750 --> 00:24:22,625 We followed the pathway until we saw some houses up there 368 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:24,667 and decided to take a look. 369 00:24:27,917 --> 00:24:31,125 There was a woman looking off into the distance, 370 00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:33,375 blocking the sun with one hand. 371 00:24:34,167 --> 00:24:37,458 When she saw us coming, she was surprised. 372 00:24:37,583 --> 00:24:41,333 She started talking to my father and said, while looking at me: 373 00:24:41,417 --> 00:24:45,375 "We could do with a little shepherd like him 374 00:24:45,458 --> 00:24:47,208 to look after the lambs." 375 00:24:48,167 --> 00:24:51,625 Once she had showed me all the lambs, kids, 376 00:24:51,708 --> 00:24:54,417 and little animals, I said to my father: 377 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:56,292 "I'm staying here." 378 00:24:57,417 --> 00:25:00,583 So they suggested to my father that I should stay there 379 00:25:00,667 --> 00:25:05,083 and he could go and work for relatives in another village. 380 00:25:07,333 --> 00:25:10,458 After all the effort that it had taken us, 381 00:25:10,542 --> 00:25:14,333 my father mulled it over and decided to let me stay in Betorz. 382 00:25:16,083 --> 00:25:19,792 And so we parted for the first time in our lives. 383 00:25:21,958 --> 00:25:24,875 Mercedes was one of the daughters of that family. 384 00:25:24,958 --> 00:25:27,208 We got in touch with her son, Jesús, 385 00:25:27,333 --> 00:25:30,042 who still owns the house where he was taken in. 386 00:25:30,125 --> 00:25:31,875 - Jesús! - Hello, how are you? 387 00:25:31,958 --> 00:25:34,500 You look great. 388 00:25:35,292 --> 00:25:37,125 How's the journey going? 389 00:25:37,208 --> 00:25:39,583 - Fine. - Fine? That's good. 390 00:25:39,667 --> 00:25:41,375 - We're finally here. - Great. 391 00:25:41,458 --> 00:25:43,750 - Did you remember the area...? - Well... 392 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:47,292 More than what I had for breakfast! 393 00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:49,583 Well, here we are. 394 00:25:49,667 --> 00:25:51,542 I was waiting for you. 395 00:25:51,625 --> 00:25:54,458 I told you we'd get here earlier, but... 396 00:25:54,542 --> 00:25:55,500 No worries. 397 00:25:55,583 --> 00:25:57,417 We spent the night in Colungo... 398 00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,708 - Oh, you stayed in Colungo? - Yes. 399 00:25:59,792 --> 00:26:03,708 Every day we go from one place to another. 400 00:26:06,625 --> 00:26:10,583 Do you want to go up the road or the path? We can do both. 401 00:26:10,667 --> 00:26:11,792 Whatever you want. 402 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:14,417 - It doesn't matter. - As you wish. 403 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,250 You're the guide here. 404 00:26:18,750 --> 00:26:20,375 There was a fountain here. 405 00:26:20,458 --> 00:26:22,292 Yes, down that path 406 00:26:22,375 --> 00:26:26,292 there was one where they collected water in a pitcher. 407 00:26:26,417 --> 00:26:29,083 It's dry now, it hasn't rained much this year. 408 00:26:29,167 --> 00:26:31,750 There was a washing place, a drinking trough. 409 00:26:31,833 --> 00:26:33,833 Water used to gush out... 410 00:26:34,750 --> 00:26:36,500 This here is the school. 411 00:26:36,583 --> 00:26:38,083 The school, of course. 412 00:26:39,292 --> 00:26:43,500 I can picture the teacher, on that side. 413 00:26:44,708 --> 00:26:47,708 It's like I can see her. Yes, sir. 414 00:26:48,125 --> 00:26:49,917 What did you learn here? 415 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,542 What did you learn here? 416 00:26:51,625 --> 00:26:54,042 What did I learn? Catechism... 417 00:26:55,417 --> 00:26:57,333 more than anything else. 418 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,875 I still couldn't read and write a lot. 419 00:27:02,542 --> 00:27:04,583 I was eight when I started 420 00:27:04,667 --> 00:27:07,083 and I'd virtually not gone to school. 421 00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:10,083 The little I did learn was here. 422 00:27:17,375 --> 00:27:18,917 The church. 423 00:27:22,208 --> 00:27:23,833 I still remember 424 00:27:24,083 --> 00:27:29,625 the tune of the song your mother sang on the day of the communion. 425 00:27:31,542 --> 00:27:34,625 Over there. She was over there, we were here. 426 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:49,208 It ended slowly, like that. 427 00:27:49,917 --> 00:27:53,250 Your mother came, your father came... 428 00:27:53,333 --> 00:27:55,667 The whole family came. 429 00:27:56,083 --> 00:27:57,667 Like the other families. 430 00:27:57,750 --> 00:28:02,458 We gathered together and the three of us took holy communion: 431 00:28:02,583 --> 00:28:04,708 Antonio, Juan Antonio and Laurea. 432 00:28:04,792 --> 00:28:08,250 There were no other children to take holy communion. 433 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,375 Why didn't you take it in Valencia? 434 00:28:11,458 --> 00:28:16,042 Because my father didn't have any money to buy me a suit. 435 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:20,083 As he didn't have a penny... 436 00:28:20,958 --> 00:28:23,458 I took it in a village... 437 00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:28,750 but as I didn't have a suit... He didn't have a thing. 438 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:31,542 So I didn't take it in Valencia. 439 00:28:32,333 --> 00:28:34,375 Those childhood memories are clearer 440 00:28:34,458 --> 00:28:36,500 than things you did as an adult. 441 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,042 My memory might fail me... 442 00:28:39,833 --> 00:28:42,167 but I remember that clearly. 443 00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:48,292 Anything else? 444 00:28:51,417 --> 00:28:52,625 That's it. 445 00:29:04,667 --> 00:29:09,250 The three families gathered here. 446 00:29:10,208 --> 00:29:15,167 My father, who was at staying some tavern, 447 00:29:16,042 --> 00:29:18,708 brought me a little bottle of anisette, 448 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:22,292 the kind with a herb in it, 449 00:29:22,375 --> 00:29:24,417 and a 25 peseta note. 450 00:29:25,583 --> 00:29:28,750 That was his present for me that day. 451 00:29:29,583 --> 00:29:32,625 Afterwards, we went to eat at your place. 452 00:29:33,417 --> 00:29:35,750 The same thing, all the family. 453 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:38,583 They were a family, end of story. 454 00:29:38,667 --> 00:29:41,333 We celebrated like everyone else. 455 00:29:42,833 --> 00:29:44,167 Marvellous. 456 00:29:44,542 --> 00:29:47,625 Do you expect me not to remember that? 457 00:30:01,667 --> 00:30:05,500 That was the first place I slept when I arrived here. 458 00:30:05,583 --> 00:30:09,292 There was a manger, a straw loft, 459 00:30:09,375 --> 00:30:11,167 and I slept there. 460 00:30:11,250 --> 00:30:15,625 I was nice and warm thanks to two bulls that were here. 461 00:30:16,083 --> 00:30:17,667 Like Baby Jesus? 462 00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:19,542 Exactly. Pretty much. 463 00:30:20,167 --> 00:30:23,542 I was so happy to be there, it was a bed, 464 00:30:23,625 --> 00:30:25,208 the same as a bed. 465 00:30:27,542 --> 00:30:29,458 I'd put the gramophone... 466 00:30:29,583 --> 00:30:31,750 I used to put it over here. 467 00:30:33,083 --> 00:30:34,458 I'd wind the handle. 468 00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:37,583 They'd come here to dance on Sunday. 469 00:30:37,708 --> 00:30:42,667 The following Sunday, the gramophone went to another house. 470 00:30:42,792 --> 00:30:43,875 Did you have fun? 471 00:30:44,250 --> 00:30:48,708 I had a great time. I'd never had such a good time. 472 00:30:51,208 --> 00:30:55,708 I always thought that your mother was a real saint. 473 00:30:57,250 --> 00:30:58,417 So good. 474 00:31:00,958 --> 00:31:04,583 You only have to look at her. Look at her face. 475 00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:07,375 They say we look alike. 476 00:31:08,417 --> 00:31:10,708 The face, the appearance, not the rest. 477 00:31:10,792 --> 00:31:14,792 Whatever you say, but I think you look alike. 478 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:19,792 Even more so when she was a bit younger. 479 00:31:22,625 --> 00:31:25,875 I grew fond of that family as if it were my own, 480 00:31:26,458 --> 00:31:28,375 and vice versa. 481 00:31:29,292 --> 00:31:31,292 Mercedes took care of me most. 482 00:31:31,417 --> 00:31:34,375 She became like a sort of mother to me. 483 00:31:36,333 --> 00:31:40,667 You can't imagine how great I felt to be in a family, 484 00:31:40,750 --> 00:31:43,458 without having to wander aimlessly. 485 00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:46,458 Knowing that every day when night fell, 486 00:31:46,542 --> 00:31:50,292 I had a bed to sleep in, food... 487 00:31:50,417 --> 00:31:52,375 For me it was a great joy. 488 00:31:54,083 --> 00:31:58,667 I'd go to school in the morning, then look after the animals, 489 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:01,500 and after that I'd play with the other children. 490 00:32:02,375 --> 00:32:04,667 I remember that shortly after I got here, 491 00:32:04,750 --> 00:32:08,625 the grandmother heard that I was covered in fleas, 492 00:32:08,708 --> 00:32:12,625 so she took me to the kitchen and between Isabel and herself 493 00:32:12,708 --> 00:32:16,542 they gave me such a good scrubbing that my skin was shining. 494 00:32:17,875 --> 00:32:20,958 I thanked them with tears in my eyes. 495 00:32:21,375 --> 00:32:25,792 From then on, I felt that my days of misery and squalor were over. 496 00:32:28,792 --> 00:32:32,250 - Hi. - What is it? What's up? 497 00:32:32,333 --> 00:32:35,958 - How's the trip? - Get dinner ready, I'm coming. 498 00:32:36,667 --> 00:32:39,333 - Are you having dinner? - No. 499 00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:41,500 How's the trip? 500 00:32:41,583 --> 00:32:44,625 Great, no complaints up to now. 501 00:32:44,708 --> 00:32:47,917 Just as well. How about the filming? 502 00:32:48,917 --> 00:32:51,042 - It's going well. - Is it? 503 00:32:51,750 --> 00:32:53,583 - It's going well. - Good. 504 00:32:55,917 --> 00:32:58,375 How is Kevin handling it? 505 00:32:59,458 --> 00:33:01,417 - Bloody great. - Is he? 506 00:33:02,083 --> 00:33:07,917 We'll see later... It's been brilliant up to now. 507 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,208 Then they have to edit the film later. 508 00:33:11,292 --> 00:33:13,708 Sure. So you're all keeping well? 509 00:33:14,625 --> 00:33:16,250 - How about you? - I'm good. 510 00:33:16,875 --> 00:33:17,917 All right. 511 00:33:18,042 --> 00:33:20,458 I think we're heading back on Tuesday. 512 00:33:20,542 --> 00:33:21,792 All right then. 513 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,875 - All right. - Lots of love! 514 00:33:24,542 --> 00:33:25,542 Likewise. 515 00:33:25,625 --> 00:33:28,042 - Bye. - Bye. 516 00:34:06,917 --> 00:34:09,333 I'd been living in Betorz for almost a year 517 00:34:09,458 --> 00:34:12,917 when my father turned up in the village with a wheelbarrow. 518 00:34:14,708 --> 00:34:18,167 He'd finished fixing the road 519 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:21,250 and came to look for me so we could be on our way. 520 00:34:21,917 --> 00:34:25,333 When I saw the wheelbarrow, I got a knot in my stomach. 521 00:34:26,208 --> 00:34:28,333 I remembered sleeping outdoors, 522 00:34:28,417 --> 00:34:31,500 the hardships we had suffered on the road. 523 00:34:33,083 --> 00:34:35,375 No way did I want to leave, 524 00:34:35,458 --> 00:34:38,292 so the family hid me in one of the rooms. 525 00:34:40,250 --> 00:34:42,667 I heard them discussing it downstairs. 526 00:34:42,750 --> 00:34:47,250 My father understood that they loved me, but so did he, 527 00:34:47,333 --> 00:34:50,292 and he was my father and wouldn't leave without me. 528 00:34:52,167 --> 00:34:56,458 Now we're pretending that you're trying to decide between 529 00:34:57,167 --> 00:35:01,000 staying here or, turning around and looking over there, 530 00:35:01,083 --> 00:35:03,208 going back on the road again. 531 00:35:03,917 --> 00:35:07,417 Without looking at the camera or us, what we want you to do 532 00:35:07,500 --> 00:35:11,250 is look at the house hesitantly, then at the wheelbarrow. 533 00:35:11,750 --> 00:35:15,417 You look back at the house. Then the wheelbarrow. 534 00:35:16,333 --> 00:35:18,000 - We want you to do that. - OK. 535 00:35:18,083 --> 00:35:19,417 Fine. 536 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,625 OK, look at the house. 537 00:35:24,250 --> 00:35:26,292 Now turn to the wheelbarrow. 538 00:35:31,292 --> 00:35:33,500 Now look at the house again. 539 00:35:38,042 --> 00:35:41,083 Again. And now the wheelbarrow. 540 00:35:41,750 --> 00:35:44,000 Walk up to the wheelbarrow, 541 00:35:44,083 --> 00:35:46,500 take it, and go down there. 542 00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:58,292 He eventually managed to convince them. 543 00:36:00,333 --> 00:36:02,333 I said goodbye to the Campos, 544 00:36:02,417 --> 00:36:06,458 the ten other families living in Betorz, and the teacher. 545 00:36:07,583 --> 00:36:09,375 We all cried our eyes out. 546 00:36:11,375 --> 00:36:16,333 Back then nobody had telephones, so when you said goodbye 547 00:36:16,458 --> 00:36:18,417 it was forever. 548 00:36:30,625 --> 00:36:32,375 Once I left Betorz, 549 00:36:33,042 --> 00:36:35,625 I didn't feel right anywhere. 550 00:36:36,333 --> 00:36:39,292 I wanted to go to Valencia, no matter what. 551 00:36:39,917 --> 00:36:43,667 And I couldn't go by myself, otherwise I would have. 552 00:36:53,875 --> 00:36:56,708 My father and I reached Sarratillo, 553 00:36:58,167 --> 00:37:01,500 where we both got a job at a farmhouse. 554 00:37:01,583 --> 00:37:05,792 It turns out that the owner of the house 555 00:37:06,208 --> 00:37:11,167 was very stingy, she always rationed the food 556 00:37:11,667 --> 00:37:13,208 because she used to say: 557 00:37:13,292 --> 00:37:18,667 "With stale bread and sour vinegar, you keep a house running." 558 00:37:19,042 --> 00:37:22,792 And I said, "You ration it, but I'll make sure I get extra." 559 00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:26,708 I followed the cat's example. 560 00:37:27,125 --> 00:37:30,667 The moggy had learnt to open a cupboard, 561 00:37:30,750 --> 00:37:32,625 grab a piece of bacon, 562 00:37:33,917 --> 00:37:36,333 and run down the stairs. 563 00:37:36,917 --> 00:37:38,083 And I thought: 564 00:37:38,583 --> 00:37:40,875 "Let's see what the cat does today." 565 00:37:40,958 --> 00:37:45,750 So I seized the opportunity to open the cupboard door 566 00:37:45,833 --> 00:37:47,458 just like the cat, 567 00:37:47,542 --> 00:37:50,625 took a good slice of bacon 568 00:37:51,708 --> 00:37:56,292 and began yelling, "The cat! The cat!" 569 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000 And from then, the cat and I took it in turns to steal a little bit. 570 00:38:05,125 --> 00:38:08,667 We quit serving at that house after a few months 571 00:38:09,250 --> 00:38:11,000 and went to another place. 572 00:38:11,625 --> 00:38:15,375 Back to walking again. Always walking. 573 00:38:16,458 --> 00:38:18,125 I began to think 574 00:38:18,208 --> 00:38:20,792 that my father didn't know where we were heading 575 00:38:20,917 --> 00:38:25,000 and the name Pamplona never appeared on the signs. 576 00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:30,042 We'll park in San Hipólito, 577 00:38:30,125 --> 00:38:32,458 then walk as far as Alastrué. 578 00:38:35,542 --> 00:38:38,708 - Will they be waiting for us there? - Yes. 579 00:38:39,417 --> 00:38:41,500 With a brass band. 580 00:38:43,208 --> 00:38:46,458 My father got work as a shepherd in Ballabriga 581 00:38:47,583 --> 00:38:51,083 and they took me up to Alastrué. 582 00:38:51,167 --> 00:38:52,875 - Alastrué. - That's where I was. 583 00:38:52,958 --> 00:38:55,042 - In the north. - No idea for how long. 584 00:38:55,125 --> 00:38:57,667 - For five, six months... - Wow, amazing. 585 00:38:57,750 --> 00:39:00,417 - A season. - You have to say it to believe it. 586 00:39:00,542 --> 00:39:03,292 - There are two houses there. - Two, right. 587 00:39:03,375 --> 00:39:04,833 - That's all. - One is... 588 00:39:04,917 --> 00:39:06,083 Casa Baylé. 589 00:39:06,167 --> 00:39:09,458 - That's ours, where we lived. - Really? 590 00:39:09,542 --> 00:39:13,333 My mother came down to live in this house. 591 00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:15,750 What a coincidence. 592 00:39:16,542 --> 00:39:18,500 We can't get there in the van? 593 00:39:18,583 --> 00:39:23,125 No, it's a dirt track with lots of potholes. 594 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:26,333 And what's the closest we can get to the area? 595 00:39:27,250 --> 00:39:31,250 Down this track, through the woods. 596 00:39:31,333 --> 00:39:36,625 There's a barrier in the river, after that you'll have to go on foot. 597 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,958 How long on foot? 598 00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:41,250 Over an hour and a half, even longer to Alastrué. 599 00:39:41,333 --> 00:39:43,417 - Yes? - Two hours to get there. 600 00:39:44,042 --> 00:39:45,042 Gosh. 601 00:39:45,875 --> 00:39:47,292 OK, kids. 602 00:39:47,958 --> 00:39:51,250 I could give you a lift there some other time. 603 00:39:53,250 --> 00:39:56,417 This poor guy, Alejandro, doesn't know that film people 604 00:39:56,500 --> 00:39:59,292 will always say yes when someone offers to help. 605 00:39:59,917 --> 00:40:02,625 A month later we showed up again for a ride 606 00:40:02,708 --> 00:40:04,250 to Alastrué in his SUV. 607 00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:07,458 Alejandro was right when he said: 608 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,125 "You'll never make it in that van." 609 00:40:15,083 --> 00:40:16,500 Watch out, a stream. 610 00:40:34,792 --> 00:40:38,708 I think that a little boy living in Alastrué is like... 611 00:40:39,917 --> 00:40:42,167 as if you grabbed him 612 00:40:42,292 --> 00:40:44,833 and clubbed him over the head. End of story. 613 00:40:44,958 --> 00:40:47,875 It's like he didn't exist. 614 00:40:50,750 --> 00:40:52,583 Life there 615 00:40:52,708 --> 00:40:55,542 was basic and then some. 616 00:40:55,625 --> 00:40:58,625 Even the vultures didn't go up there, and there was I 617 00:40:58,708 --> 00:41:00,667 discovering new frontiers! 618 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,333 I was a little boy 619 00:41:14,917 --> 00:41:17,875 who adapted to wherever I was. 620 00:41:18,458 --> 00:41:21,250 I didn't have friends, I didn't have... 621 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,417 I didn't have anywhere to play with anyone. 622 00:41:26,708 --> 00:41:28,125 I was by myself. 623 00:41:37,625 --> 00:41:38,833 What a pity. 624 00:41:39,667 --> 00:41:43,583 Anyway... that's life. 625 00:41:45,167 --> 00:41:46,625 Life goes on. 626 00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:50,875 But life is over here in this... 627 00:41:51,667 --> 00:41:52,875 in this place. 628 00:42:47,792 --> 00:42:51,083 One day my father came to Alastrué so we could go 629 00:42:51,167 --> 00:42:54,625 with my boss to take some pigs to Aínsa. 630 00:42:55,417 --> 00:42:57,917 We loaded up and set off. 631 00:43:03,417 --> 00:43:06,458 If your father was suddenly here with us now, 632 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:07,750 what would you say? 633 00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:09,417 I'd say to my father: 634 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:14,375 What were you thinking coming to these places? 635 00:43:15,333 --> 00:43:17,625 As if you were brainless. 636 00:43:20,167 --> 00:43:24,042 And he'd reply, "Well, back in those days 637 00:43:26,083 --> 00:43:30,292 you had to make a living, 638 00:43:30,792 --> 00:43:32,458 so we came here." 639 00:43:32,542 --> 00:43:33,833 That's all he'd say. 640 00:43:35,083 --> 00:43:36,500 Another crazy episode. 641 00:43:37,083 --> 00:43:40,250 One that began in Betorz and ended in Alastrué. 642 00:43:41,375 --> 00:43:45,500 One of the many crazy things my father did on this journey. 643 00:43:46,167 --> 00:43:48,167 Do you think your father was mad? 644 00:43:48,292 --> 00:43:50,292 No, my father wasn't mad. 645 00:43:50,833 --> 00:43:52,167 I wish he had been mad, 646 00:43:52,292 --> 00:43:56,125 because then I'd have just locked him up in the asylum. 647 00:43:56,250 --> 00:44:00,125 What he was lacking was affection. 648 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,167 If he'd been mad, he'd have suffered less. 649 00:44:06,583 --> 00:44:08,083 At the end of the day, 650 00:44:08,208 --> 00:44:10,417 I didn't suffer at all by his side. 651 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:12,875 He always looked out for me. 652 00:44:12,958 --> 00:44:14,542 When walking, he'd say: 653 00:44:14,625 --> 00:44:18,625 "Watch out for that stone, get closer here, 654 00:44:18,750 --> 00:44:20,292 give me your hand...". 655 00:44:21,167 --> 00:44:23,542 If everyone had been as mad as he was, 656 00:44:24,083 --> 00:44:26,125 it might have been different. 657 00:44:26,625 --> 00:44:29,292 He wasn't a bad person at all. 658 00:44:30,417 --> 00:44:32,292 Everyone does what they can. 659 00:44:32,417 --> 00:44:35,250 Sure. He did what he could. 660 00:44:40,833 --> 00:44:43,792 This is the last shot on the video camera tape. 661 00:44:47,667 --> 00:44:49,500 I've brought him to this lookout 662 00:44:49,583 --> 00:44:51,792 with amazing views of the river Cinca 663 00:44:51,875 --> 00:44:54,125 and the mountains seen from Aínsa. 664 00:44:54,917 --> 00:44:57,458 This was the last thing he saw as a child, 665 00:44:57,542 --> 00:45:01,167 the farthest point they reached after leaving Valencia on foot. 666 00:45:01,917 --> 00:45:05,000 It was also the last thing he wrote in his memoirs. 667 00:45:05,083 --> 00:45:06,792 There are no more pages. 668 00:45:18,417 --> 00:45:21,792 When we reached Aínsa and saw those mountains, 669 00:45:22,250 --> 00:45:24,625 I saw I was further from home than ever. 670 00:45:26,208 --> 00:45:30,083 It seemed massive, like a huge stone wall, 671 00:45:30,167 --> 00:45:33,458 and I thought that we couldn't go any further. 672 00:45:34,792 --> 00:45:38,083 I couldn't stop thinking about going back to Valencia 673 00:45:38,167 --> 00:45:40,167 and kept saying to my father: 674 00:45:40,250 --> 00:45:43,125 "Let's go to Valencia, let's go to Valencia." 675 00:45:43,208 --> 00:45:45,458 Eventually he gave in and said: 676 00:45:45,542 --> 00:45:48,542 "All right, then let's go to Valencia." 677 00:45:49,208 --> 00:45:51,333 And we went back to Valencia. 678 00:45:53,625 --> 00:45:57,125 That was when I realised that my father 679 00:45:57,208 --> 00:46:01,667 had let me decide for the first time in my whole life. 680 00:46:18,708 --> 00:46:21,292 I don't know how the film should continue, 681 00:46:21,375 --> 00:46:24,375 so for the moment I've decided to fade to black. 682 00:46:24,875 --> 00:46:27,292 I'd love my granddad to say in his memoirs 683 00:46:27,375 --> 00:46:29,292 that we filmed this documentary. 684 00:46:30,042 --> 00:46:32,542 I don't know if he will finish them one day. 685 00:46:32,667 --> 00:46:35,042 That's no longer important to me. 686 00:46:35,167 --> 00:46:36,417 After this journey, 687 00:46:36,542 --> 00:46:38,875 I want to understand what happened 688 00:46:38,958 --> 00:46:40,083 between that boy 689 00:46:40,167 --> 00:46:42,167 drifting around with his father and me, 690 00:46:42,292 --> 00:46:44,708 the person now making a film. 691 00:46:45,375 --> 00:46:47,583 I tried to sort out hundreds 692 00:46:47,667 --> 00:46:49,333 of family photos and videos. 693 00:46:50,958 --> 00:46:53,292 This is the first ever photo of my granddad. 694 00:46:53,375 --> 00:46:54,708 He's 13. 695 00:46:54,792 --> 00:46:56,708 He looks happy, satisfied. 696 00:46:56,792 --> 00:46:59,250 Like a miniature version of a man, while now 697 00:46:59,333 --> 00:47:01,083 he's like a big kid. 698 00:47:01,167 --> 00:47:03,083 He was already a foreman then, 699 00:47:03,167 --> 00:47:05,500 soon he was the one giving his father work. 700 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,875 Doing his military service. 701 00:47:16,292 --> 00:47:18,292 My grandparents' wedding day. 702 00:47:23,625 --> 00:47:25,833 When my uncle Antonio was born. 703 00:47:27,208 --> 00:47:28,667 When my mother was born. 704 00:47:34,917 --> 00:47:36,250 My uncle Raúl... 705 00:47:39,708 --> 00:47:41,125 His holy communion. 706 00:47:50,458 --> 00:47:53,167 My aunt and uncle's wedding. 707 00:47:59,792 --> 00:48:01,000 My parents' wedding. 708 00:49:01,042 --> 00:49:03,625 - Where do you want to go? - To the cinema. 709 00:49:03,750 --> 00:49:05,667 Wait, I want to film. 710 00:49:05,792 --> 00:49:06,875 Go on. 711 00:49:07,375 --> 00:49:10,208 Go on! Go on! Go on! 712 00:49:10,333 --> 00:49:12,542 Come on, Dad, I want to film the baby. 713 00:49:13,292 --> 00:49:15,208 I filmed her before. 714 00:50:06,625 --> 00:50:08,292 At the beginning I asked 715 00:50:08,417 --> 00:50:10,250 if cinema serves a purpose. 716 00:50:10,917 --> 00:50:13,333 Embarking on this journey, editing this film, 717 00:50:13,458 --> 00:50:16,625 I realised it was my granddad who gave me that passion 718 00:50:16,708 --> 00:50:18,542 I've always had inside, 719 00:50:18,625 --> 00:50:21,542 that enduring spirit to push the wheelbarrow, 720 00:50:21,625 --> 00:50:23,833 to move on without knowing where to. 721 00:50:24,458 --> 00:50:26,542 He reveals that strength by walking. 722 00:50:27,167 --> 00:50:28,833 I do it by filming. 723 00:50:30,458 --> 00:50:33,917 Werner Herzog said that cinema is the art of illiterates. 724 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,542 Not all can read and write, 725 00:50:35,625 --> 00:50:37,708 but everyone can watch a film, 726 00:50:37,792 --> 00:50:41,708 regardless of their class, or where they are in the world. 727 00:50:46,875 --> 00:50:49,375 In cinema, time and space are blurred 728 00:50:49,458 --> 00:50:51,792 and can coexist in another reality. 729 00:50:51,875 --> 00:50:54,500 And it is in that reality that we can understand 730 00:50:54,583 --> 00:50:56,583 what happens to us as humans. 731 00:50:57,917 --> 00:51:00,125 For me, my granddad comes from the past. 732 00:51:00,500 --> 00:51:02,667 And for him, I come from the future. 733 00:51:02,750 --> 00:51:05,917 We found a common space in cinema to tell our story. 734 00:51:06,833 --> 00:51:09,042 Cinema is a mirror that can reflect 735 00:51:09,125 --> 00:51:10,625 our past and our present. 736 00:51:10,750 --> 00:51:13,083 We feel less alone knowing there are others 737 00:51:13,167 --> 00:51:15,250 asking themselves the same questions. 738 00:51:16,250 --> 00:51:18,000 It is the art of sculpting in time. 739 00:51:18,625 --> 00:51:21,000 It captures the present, yet it is eternal. 740 00:51:21,125 --> 00:51:23,833 Like the lives the nomads painted on cave walls 741 00:51:23,917 --> 00:51:27,250 so they would remain there forever, and years later, 742 00:51:27,333 --> 00:51:28,583 be found by us. 743 00:51:40,333 --> 00:51:48,583 THE ART OF ILLITERATES 744 00:51:50,708 --> 00:51:51,833 Is it nice? 745 00:51:53,417 --> 00:51:58,000 MY GRANDDAD AND HIS FATHER CONTINUED LIVING TOGETHER 746 00:51:59,292 --> 00:52:05,292 HE WAS REUNITED WITH HIS MOTHER AT 24 AND THEY NEVER SEPARATED AGAIN 747 00:52:08,833 --> 00:52:10,625 That's certainly some kiss! 748 00:52:15,792 --> 00:52:18,542 DEDICATED TO MANUEL CASTAÑO 749 00:52:18,792 --> 00:52:24,125 FOR PUSHING THE WHEELBARROW THAT BROUGHT US ALL HERE 750 00:55:13,167 --> 00:55:16,125 Keep on, no matter what. 751 00:55:20,167 --> 00:55:23,208 I keep on sailing 752 00:55:24,292 --> 00:55:27,208 With this happy tune 753 00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,750 If I knew where I was going 754 00:55:31,708 --> 00:55:37,083 I wouldn't have left the Roca neighbourhood 755 00:55:39,667 --> 00:55:42,583 But my dad insisted 756 00:55:43,542 --> 00:55:46,500 On going to Pamplona 757 00:55:47,667 --> 00:55:52,958 And a few hours later, we got lost in this area. 758 00:55:54,750 --> 00:55:58,417 THE ART OF ILLITERATES 759 00:55:58,833 --> 00:56:00,625 [SUBTITULA'M]