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A new upcoming film, Un cel de plom (2023)

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On April 28, Un cel de plom (Ashes in the Sky), the first fiction film by Miquel Romans that tells the life of Neus Català, one of the last survivors of the Ravensbrück Nazi extermination camp, will be released in theaters. Nausicaa Bonnín (Tres díascon la familia, La luz de Elna) puts herself in the shoes of the historic woman in a free adaptation of the homonymous book by Carme Martí (Amsterdam Publishing House, 2012), specifically in one of its episodes, in the which narrates the return home of this activist in the anti-fascist struggle and a reference to the French resistance.

«This is a story of overcoming, of absences and of struggle for memory, a story of women fighters and dreamers. Neus died in April 2019 at the age of 103 and this film wants to be a tribute to her”, explains Romans, who makes his feature film debut with this film that will have its world premiere on the day April 22 as a film in competition in the Official Section of the BCN Film Fest 2023.

Catalá was born in 1915 in Guiamets. Once the Civil War broke out, she worked in defense of the Republic as a nurse, and finally crossed the border with France along with 180 boys and girls from one of Negrín's colonies. There she joined the Resistance, together with her husband, Albert Roger. Her militancy ended in detention and torture in Limoges prison and she was finally deported in 1944 to the Ravensbrück women's extermination camp. From Ravensbrück she was transferred to the Holleischen labor camp (Czechoslovakia), where she joined a group of women who sabotaged the bullet production factory where the Nazis made them work. They were known as El Comando de Gandulas.

In 1945, with the liberation of the Nazi camps, Neus Català returns to France after being imprisoned by the German army. As she recovers her life in freedom, she recalls the events of when she formed part of El Comando de Gandulas. But the true resistance of Neus Català begins now: the fight for memory.

Cast: Nausicaa Bonnín, Rachel Lascar, Roger Batalla, Iria del Río, Natalia Barrientos, Paula Vélez, Laura Conejero, Quitterie Picamoles, Pep Ferrer, Daniel Horvath, Christiane Dollmann and Fernando Corral.

• Screenplay: Miquel Romans, Lydia Zimmermann

• Photography: Marc Zumbach

• Production: Miquel Romans

Un cel de plom is produced by Principal 2 Films and Comando de Gandulas AIE in co-production with TV3, with the participation of Aragón TV and the support of the ICEC. Filmax will distribute it in theaters.

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