The last film that Manuel Huerga directed with a script by Toni Soler was April 14. Macià v Companys (2014), a fake television report about true events: the fleeting proclamation of the Catalan Republic and the political rivalry between Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys. Our Father, the new collaboration between Huerga and Soler, symbolically picks up that thread with an aerial tracking shot that covers half of Barcelona: from Montjuïc Castle, where Companys was executed in 1940, to the official car in which Jordi Pujol traveled in 2014, days before confessing to the hidden fortune in Andorra; that is, from the physical death of the 123rd president of the Generalitat to the political and reputational death of the 126th.

The story of the Pujol family, for years a symbol of power in Catalonia and later the epicenter of one of the most notorious scandals in Catalan politics, comes to theaters with Our Father, The first film to address the fall of the Pujol Ferrusola family. Directed by Manuel Huerga and written by Toni Soler, the film will be released in theaters on April 16th by Filmax. It tells the story of how the former president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) and his family dealt with the crisis surrounding the undeclared fortune in Andorran bank accounts.

Rarely is a film made with the train in motion. That is, with the characters alive and the central events still pending judgment. The fact that the protagonists are believable and the film is entertaining, despite knowing their story, is a success. Our Father, the film by Toni Soler and Manuel Huerga, which will be released on April 16, makes us think especially about everything we don't know or that perhaps we won't know for many years, or perhaps we will never know.

Rarely is a film made with the train in motion. That is, with the characters alive and the central events yet to be judged. The fact that the protagonists are believable and the film is entertaining, despite knowing their story, is a success. Parenostre, the film by Toni Soler and Manuel Huerga, which will be released on April 16, makes us think especially about everything we don't know or that perhaps we won't know for many years, or perhaps we will never know.

The first thing to celebrate Our Father It's the normality of being able to go to the cinema to see a historical episode whose protagonist is someone who was president of a country for 23 years. In any democracy in the world, a drama like the death of Jordi Pujol, the most important Catalan politician of the last quarter of the 20th century, would have interested the film industry, and this is a credit to Toni Soler, who has long since normalized political satire on television.

Josep Maria Pou shows me the photo he has as the background on his phone: it shows a disheveled Jordi Pujol, his tie askew, a living image of defeat. He tells me he's spent hours and hours looking at him, during breaks in filming and in the mornings, preparing the scenes, to put himself in the shoes of the former president of the Generalitat (Catalan government) in the film. Our Father, which hits theaters this Wednesday. The actor gives us two generous hours to talk calmly about theater and life.