The Shadow of the Ombú

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Basque

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Screening of the film The Shadow of the Ombú, directed by Patxi Bisquert, which tells the story of Pello Mari Otaño's escape to Argentina to avoid military service. At 33 he fell ill and returned to Gipuzkoa, where he met Madalen Alberdi, whom he married and settled with in Donostia. After standing out in several literary contests for his poetic work, he could not reconcile his family and political ideology —liberal republican and foral—, so he definitively returned to Argentina with his wife and three children.

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