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THE PLAGUE

LA PLAGA

By Neus BALLÚS

D'A - BARCELONA FILM FESTIVAL / NOUCINEMART - as DISTR Theatrical, SPAIN / FEST

First film - Completed 2013

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- First film
- Countries
- SPAIN
- Duration
- 85 mn
- Director(s)
- Neus BALLÚS
- Writer(s)
- Neus BALLÚS
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-B6FD-0000-U-0000-0000-L
- EIDR
- 10.5240/1E8D-A8A2-2B00-A2CC-38F4-J
- Producer(s)
- Pau SUBIRÓS
- Synopsis
- Raul, a farmer who wants to grow organic food, hires Iurie to help him in the fields. Iurie is a Moldavian wrestler, who earns a living in whatever comes his way. Slowly, their personal stories intertwine with those of three solitary women: Maria, an elderly lady forced to leave her countryside house for a retirement home; Rose, a Philippine nurse who has just arrived in the country; and Maribel, a prostitute who has less and less clients. The destinies of all these characters become entwined as the summer goes on.
  The Plague is a film of interwoven stories, that offers a moving portrait of life on the outskirts of Barcelona. The main characters are not actors. They play themselves after four years of working with the director. This long process has permitted Ballús to reveal the uncertainty and rebel spirit that underlies contemporary crisis-hit Spain.