Ogro

Operación Ogro
Spanish DVD cover
Directed byGillo Pontecorvo
Written byGiorgio Arlorio
Ugo Pirro
Gillo Pontecorvo
Produced byFranco Cristaldi
José Sámano
StarringGian Maria Volonté
José Sacristán
Ángela Molina
Eusebio Poncela
Ana Torrent
CinematographyMarcello Gatti
Edited byMario Morra
Music byEnnio Morricone
Release dates
  • 28 September 1979 (1979-09-28) (Italy)
  • 5 April 1980 (1980-04-05) (Spain)
Running time
100 minutes
Countries
  • Spain
  • Italy
LanguageSpanish

Operación Ogro is a 1979 Spanish and Italian drama film written and directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.

The film is based on true events in Spain during the early 1970s and is based on the eponymous book by Julen Agirre (pseudonym of Eva Forest).[1]

The film won the David di Donatello (an annual Italian motion picture award) for Best Film.

All the actors, a mix of Spaniards and Italians, spoke Spanish in the dubbed version released in Spain, and Italian in the dubbed Italian version.

  1. ^ Obituary, The Guardian.

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