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The Basque directors, Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, (Giant, The Endless Trench) are presenting their latest film Marco in the Perlak section after its premiere at the Venice Festival. It’s about Enric Marco, who claimed to be a Nazi concentrationcamp survivor but was exposed as a fraud in 2005 when it came to light that he had stolen a real victim’s identity in order to begin to forge his reputation. The odd thing about Marco, as Arregi explains, is that, once this was discovered, instead of going into hiding “he begins to create a new Marco who, in a way, revels in his own aura: he is neither the hero he once claimed to be nor the villain that is depicted in the media, but a Marco who has lied about some things but who claimed to have told the truth on other occasions and fights on right to the very end to try and preserve a reputation.” And it is this defiant character, that the film highlights when it comes to delving into a personality as complex as Enric Marco’s: “He is someone who arouses a mixture of fascination and repulsion. Taking this as a starting point, what we were quite clear about was that we could not judge him. That absolutely deliberate decision sets the tone for the film, that may seem cold to some, but the fact is that we had to establish a certain distance between a character who may have the charm of a rogue but who, deep down, did some awful things,” says Arregi.
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