The Island of Wind

Original title: La isla del viento

2015 ★ 6.5 105 min IMDb Spanish Manuel Menchón

Overview

The first fiction feature by Spanish director Manuel Menchón reconstructs the banishment of writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) from Bilbao to Fuerteventura by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, as punishment for his openly dissident statements against the military regime, the King and the monarchic system.

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