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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (El herrero y el diablo)
Based on a Basque folk tale, ”Patxi herrementaria,” collected by priest, archaeologist and anthropologist José Migel de Barandiarán in 1903, the story is set in the Basque region in 1845, in a universe inhabited by mythological diabolic creatures, battling to capture the souls of the unwitting.
1954 in Orio, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain
1977 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain
May 2, 1934 in Shanghai, China
1966 in Vitoria, Álava, País Vasco, Spain
24 January 1974, Bilbao, Vizcaya, País Vasco, Spain
May 30, 1972 in Rentería, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain
11 March 1984, País Vasco, Spain
June 15, 1980 in Vitoria, Álava, País Vasco, Spain
March 05, 2018
With its balance between specificity and universality, Errementari reveals a filmmaker capable of transmitting how passionately he feels for his material. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 28, 2018
... the images end up being bombastic instead of imposing, as if you put a disc thinking that you are going to hear a coven of Black Sabbath and what it sounds to play is the pagan Feast of Wizard of Oz. [Full review in Spanish]
March 09, 2018
With fantastic set designs and beautifully sombre lighting, The Blacksmith And The Devil transforms nineteenth-century northern Spain into a space all at once mythic and medieval...
March 05, 2018
A meritorious production, surely more skillful than plenty of media, does not know whether or not to take itself seriously. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 20, 2018
[Paul] Urkijo is never ashamed to be explaining a story, but he doesn't do it in the Disney way. [Full Review in Spanish]
August 23, 2018
Rather than hot pokers and knives, this duo use bells and chickpeas. That's right, this film is so good that it makes chickpeas scary! So much so that you may very well feel some sympathy for the devil.
