HELIO'S SUITCASE

LA MALETA DE HELIO

By Nacho A. VILLAR, Javier ANGULO

ALAMEDA FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, MEXICO / PROD

True Story - Completed 2019

Carrying nothing but his father's old suitcase, the son of an Spanish republican anarchist exiled in Mexico since 1941, travels to Spain in order to unveil his thrilling story.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2020
European Screenings
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • True Story, Documentary
    • Countries
    • SPAIN, MEXICO
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Duration
    • 74 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nacho A. VILLAR, Javier ANGULO
    • Writer(s)
    • Javier ANGULO
    • Producer(s)
    • Roberto LOZANO (Cesna Producciones), Marta CORDOVÉS, Diego MILAN PENICHE, Helio ESTEVEZ MAURIZ
    • Synopsis
    • Helio Estevez was only months old when in 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, his father, an anarchist republican, left his town to go into exile. Now, 80 years later, he travels to his father's house to bring the suitcase with which he arrived in Mexico in 1941. At the age of 19, Helios Estevez arrived in this country with a mission: to meet his father and reunite his family to end the pain of her mother, unable to bear the long absence of her husband. Through their testimonies we'll know the dramatic vicissitudes of his life until he became a successful man in Mexico and we will discover the fascinating story of his father, unknown until today in Spain.