HISTAGRA collaborates on the film San Simon

 

The HISTAGRA group is collaborating as an advisory team on the film San Simón, written and directed by Miguel Ángel Delgado, a filmmaker from La Mancha.

 

The story is set in October 1936. Franco's regime creates more than three hundred concentration camps throughout Spain: convents, factories, schools, bullrings, monasteries and other ‘closed’ spaces. San Simón stands out for its insularity. The regime turns the former leper colony into a place of death where prisoners suffer repression surrounded by overwhelming beauty. Seven years later, Lamas, a prisoner on the island, recalls the story of the men and women who, like himself, suffered repression in this small enclave on the Galician coast.

 

The film ‘San Simón’, directed by Miguel A. Delgado, premiered in the Made in Spain section of the San Sebastián Film Festival last September.

 

After more than four years of research into the history surrounding San Simón, the script for this film recounts the fate of the men and women who were persecuted during the almost seven years in which the island functioned as a penal colony. The story was the subject of extensive research, largely thanks to the previous work of researchers such as Antonio Caeiro, Gonzalo Amoedo and the team from the Histagra research group at the USC, who collaborated on the project as a whole.