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HIDALGO THE PHILANTHROPIST GAZE

HIDALGO - LA MIRADA DEL FILÁNTROPO

By Temistocles LOPEZ

RAYOGRAPH FILMS - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2024

BORN TO DO GOOD

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Documentary, Biography
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 54 mn
- Director(s)
- Temistocles LOPEZ
- Synopsis
- Diego Hidalgo is not interested in being famous. After years of intense work behind the scenes, this promoter of democracy in the world finally agrees to put himself under the spotlight to tell us about his triumphs and failures.
  From the day he decided to dedicate his considerable inheritance to the good of others, Diego Hidalgo has lived with the intensity of an adventurer. From remote African tribes to the corridors of world diplomacy, this stubborn altruist has managed to cement alliances, contribute to the spread of lights and touch the lives of many.
  Diego has done more to promote democracy in the world than some of the politicians who have listened to his advice. Founder of the Club of Madrid, where he welcomes the most influential leaders of the moment, Hidalgo has been a promoter and participant in cultural institutions such as El País, Alianza Editorial and essential think tanks for the promotion of Human Rights.
  Son of a Jewish woman born in Germany who lived in the golden Paris of the interwar years and an Extremaduran descendant of progressive nobles, Diego came into the world in a Spain still convalescing from the tortuous civil war. His parents instilled in him as a child humanistic ideals that prepared him for what would be the most important decision of his life: to dedicate his considerable inheritance to the noble mission of philanthropy.
  Diego's life is linked to great events, from the escape of his Jewish grandfather from Nazi Berlin to the establishment of democracy in Spain. Diego tells us about his life as a pleasant walk through the last decades. A friend of intellectuals, kings and beggars, this architect of concord who always thinks big has organized dialogues between characters that have affected the course of history. Gorbachev, Clinton, Kofi Annan, S.S. the Dalai Lama, Jorge Luis Borges and the King of Spain, among many others, appear in this lively cavalcade.
  Through the years and his eight foundations, Diego has managed to benefit entire communities, getting involved in causes such as peace in the Near and Middle East or helping to revive the village of his ancestors.
  Diego has known how to navigate the renewing currents of culture through his participation in "El País" and other publications. Thanks to his financial support, he was able to save the Alianza publishing house, which allowed him to establish friendships with great authors such as Borges.
  Dreamy and pragmatic, visionary and clueless, erudite and romantic, Diego has also known failure in his quixotic company, but his irrepressible tenacity has allowed him to achieve great achievements. Among his many victories, his most valued is having established harmony in his very large family, the fruit of four wives, ten children and numerous grandchildren.
  Diego's life, full of surprises and reversals of fortune, can serve as an inspiration not only for the few who have the possibility of becoming patrons, but for all those who see life as an opportunity to contr