Pàtria (2017)

Interesting facts

Pàtria is a 2017 Catalan-language Spanish historical drama film directed by Joan Frank Charansonnet, starring Miquel Sitjar. It is based on the legend of the Catalan national hero Otger Cataló as recounted by Pere Tomich. The plot, set in 8th-century Catalonia, follows the story of Otger as he resists the moorish invaders who have occupied Catalonia.

Production and release

The film was produced on a low budget described variously as €250,000, €300,000 and €400,000.

The director Joan Frank Charansonnet had long dreamed of making a historical epic which would become a "Catalan Braveheart". He pitched this idea to the state-funded Catalan-language television channel TV3, but they argued that a film based on Otger was "not of interest". Following this setback, he decided to raise the money for the film by seeking private donations through the crowdfunding website Verkami.

The film had Premiers at the International Festival of Cinema in Catalan in Barcelona and at the Nice International Film Festival in May 2015, where it won the award for Best Foreign Language Feature Film. The film than debuted across Catalonia on 9 June, 2017.

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