The actor and filmmaker Patxi Bisquert has been committed to the work of moving forward for some time. Ombuaren Itzala, film about the life and work of the bertsolari and poet Pello Mari Otaño (Zizurkil, 1857 – Rosario, 1910). Now, he has launched a crowdfunding campaign to “pay the production costs” of the project.

Anyone who wants to support “a journey around the nostalgia of the emigrant and the resurrection of an oppressed people” can participate in the campaign launched on the Verkami platform and determine the amount they want to contribute.

Pello Mari Otaño first escaped to America in 1875, after the abolition of the fueros, and lived for two or three years in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, working as a shepherd and blacksmith, before returning to Zizurkil.

Later, he decided to return to America, and worked there for ten years as a gaucho, until he became ill and returned to Euskal Herria. It is at this moment that he begins the narration of Ombuaren Itzala.

In a society crossed by the confrontation between Carlists and liberals, Otaño tried to find his place: he married Madalen Alberdi, and achieved a certain impact thanks to his poetic compositions and bertsos.

In any case, Otaño was forced to return to America with his family in search of a better economic situation. There, he wrote a poem that related an ombú, a tree native to the Argentine pampas, with a walnut tree planted in his birthplace in Zizurkil. This writing is the origin of the title of Bisquert’s project.

In addition to director and producer Patxi Bisquert, the actors and actresses Uma Manterola, Olatz Beobide, Sara Cozar, Joseba Usabiaga, Iñaki Beraetxe, Ramon Agirre and Kandela Manterola participate in the film.

Source: Eitb

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