Irati

Irati (2023)

Everything that has a name is

Western Pyrenees, year 778. When his land is threatened by the ruthless armies of the Frankish emperor, a Basque warlord asks for help from his ancestral gods.

Date of release
2023-02-24
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (111)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
Director
Paul Urkijo Alijo

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €4.3M
  • Filmed in: Lezea and Loarre Castle

Irati is a 2022 epic fantasy adventure film written and directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo based on the graphic novel El ciclo de Irati which stars Eneko Sagardoy alongside Edurne Azkarate and Itziar Ituño. A Spanish-French co-production shot in Basque heavily borrowing from Basque mythology, the film is set in the 8th century against the backdrop of the ongoing Christianization of remote areas around the Pyrenees. The plot tracks Eneko (Sagardoy), son to a Basque chieftain who died in battle, who journeys into the forest to find the body of his father, guided by pagan woman Irati (Azkarate).

Production

Irati is based on the graphic novel El ciclo de Irati ("The Irati Cycle"), authored by J. L. Landa and J. Muñoz. It was produced by Irati Zinema AIE (Bainet, Ikusgarri Films and Kilima Media) alongside La Fidèle Production, with support from ICAA, EiTB, RTVE, Gobierno Vasco, Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz and Diputación Foral de Álava. It boasts a €4.3 million budget, receiving the maximum cap of funding from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

Dialogue is in a mixture of modern and 13th-century Basque, with some Latin, Arabic and Frankish.

Filming wrapped in November 2021. It was shot in the Pyrenees (Navarre and the province of Huesca), including locations such as the Irati Forest, and the Castle of Loarre.

Urkijo's inspirations besides Basque mythology were the films Excalibur, Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven, The Vikings, The War Lord, Robin and Marian, The Name of the Rose, The 13th Warrior, Pan's Labyrinth, The Lord of the Rings and Princess Mononoke.

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