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Between 1940 and 1943, more than
9,000 Spanish citizens

were interned in concentration camps in
Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany.

Most of them were
Republicans who had fled

to France at the end of the
Spanish civil war.

Franco had the opportunity to prevent
this deportation through his

agreements with Hitler's government, but Hitler's
government, but rejected that possibility.

After the end of World War II,

Spain did not take care
of the survivors.

In the 1960s, Spanish deportees
created an association

to fight against the institutional
disregard to which they were subjected.

In 2005, they were hit hard.

MARCO, THE INVENTED TRUTH

FLOSSENBÜRG, GERMANY

FEBRUARY 1999

PRISONERS, WELCOME BACK!

I prayed to all the gods:

Do something!

But nothing happened.

But others met a far worse fate.
a much worse fate.

Because I am still here and they are not.

So many died
that the crematorium could not cope.

They piled up the dead
and poured gasoline over them.

They burned them on the spot.

The smell coming from the valley
also affected our minds.

Are you okay, sweetheart?

Good morning.

We come from Spain.

This is my husband
and he was a prisoner here.

Do you speak German?

A little, but better in English.

In English, please.

Well, it's great to have you here.

More and more deportees
who were here are coming.

They come from many parts of Europe,
but you are the first Spaniard.

Ah, look where...

Listen.

This is butifarra, typical of my land.

Butifarra, from Catalonia.

- Is it for us?
- Yes.

It is not very original,

but it makes him happy,
because he is from his homeland.

Thank you.

In return

I need an official certificate
that I was here.

An official certificate.

The association of deportees in Spain
asks for the official document.

Naturally.

Let's start there.
Let's see if we can find it.

What was your inmate number?

The number.

I don't remember.

That's all right, maybe we'll find you
in the alphabetical listing.

Enric Marco Batlle or Enrique Marcos.

Yes, but I don't remember
if I said my real name.

Nothing.
He does not appear with his real name.

Yes, I have already told you, yes...
I was going around all day long
day doing sabotage actions.

I was being chased by the SS.

The SS chased me
and I gave another name.

Well, mmm...

Where did it come from?

From Kiel.

Kiel Prison.

Did it not come from France,

like the rest of the Spanish deportees
who ended up here?

Didn't you come from...?

No, Kiel, I'm not going
know where I came from.

From the prison in Kiel.

Well, it is not at all common.

Knowing this,
it may be easier to find you.

Yes, but we are already here
and I'm old and tired.

The trip from Spain is very long.

It is very important to me.

I need this document.

I'm sorry, but I can't give it to you
if it is not on the list.

Look, let's do this:

in July there will be a meeting
between former deportees.

Why don't they come then?

By then we may have clues.

It gives us time to investigate.

Okay, thank you.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- Thank you very much.
- See you soon.

Thank you very much for coming.

Let's go.

Are you sure that it really
happened the way you told it?

Of course.

In Pons Prades' book,
you tell it differently.

Pons Prades' book thirty years ago.

Pons Prades' book.

Look, that book is nonsense.
It was full of mistakes.

FIVE YEARS LATER

- Enric, anytime.
- Come on in.

It is a unique opportunity
to meet someone

who has experienced history
in the first person.

Susana, it's here.

He is an elderly person.

I trust you!

Good morning.

Good morning

My name is Enric Marco Batlle
and I was born on April 14, 1921.

Do the math!

That means I'm an old man.
A little old man.

I am Enric,

but when I entered the Flossenbürg
concentration camp in Flossenbürg,

I stopped being Enric.

From that moment on,
I became number 6448.

A number that will accompany me
for the rest of my life.

But let's start at the beginning.

Do you know what a concentration camp is?

You have...

Say something, anything!

The first thing that comes to your mind.
Don't be ashamed.

About the Nazis and the Jews...

Very good, exactly.

But beyond that,
what was a concentration camp?

And why did we end up there?

Why did they put me
in a concentration camp?

Why?

When you got to the field
there were some very big chimneys,

from which a very black smoke came out,

24 hours a day.

When you arrived,
the guard would tell you:

"You guys came in this way."
he said, pointing to the door,

"and you will go out that way,"
he said, just like that,

pointing to the fireplace.

We couldn't believe it!

Who could believe
that horror was true!

Tell me.

Did you get the number tattooed on your arm?

What? They were tattooed.
I saw it in a movie.

Yes, but don't laugh.

No, I know you do not do it
with ill will,

but that's not funny.

The history of the Jews, the Nazis, ours.
It's not funny.

Yes, that happened in Auschwitz,
but there were many concentration camps.

Jews were tattooed,
boys and girls too,

and they took it as a game,
but it wasn't.

Many Jews died,
but many other people also died.

Many people from here died,
many Catalans,

friends of your grandparents,

neighbors or simply acquaintances
of your grandparents...

went out through that chimney.

The ashes came out
out of that chimney.

This is the second time I've listened
to it and I have been moved again.

Ah, look how nice!
Thank you, is it this way?

The passage of the towers
particularly touched me.

Maybe I could come back,
before the end of the course.

We could do the same,
but with students in a lower grade.

That better...

Yes, I'd love to, but still...

After the holidays,
call the association

and we agree
to make another talk.

- What do you think?
- Thank you very much, Enric.

Great.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

And to you too, thank you very much.

And happy new year!

Yes, of course,
Merry Christmas and Happy 2005!

Likewise.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005

Incredible, how young people know
about the concentration camps.

That's true, isn't it?

Look, notice that a student
believed that a crematorium oven

is something used in bakeries.

No, no, the teacher
didn't know where to put herself.

Trying to explain that a cream oven
is not the same as a cremation oven.

The idea they have, look...

The teachers, wherever you go,
they come up with their lives.

I think that children, the only thing
they know about the holocaust

is because of this little movie.

Man, but not "little movie" either, right?

It looks pretty good to me.

Is it very good, they say?

Don't you realize what a manipulation
this is?

It's amazing how you can play

with the feelings of the deported
in this way...

Enric.

Benigni, this one, ...palagoso.
There is no one who believes it.

My uncle liked it too, huh?

Gooey... huh? Like your uncle. No.

Not your aunt.

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

Not your aunt.

She saw herself reflected in it.

Dad! Have you prepared the speech yet?

And yes, yes, yes.

You know I like to improvise.

Zapatero is going to be there, right?

So it seems. It is very important.

The first time something like this has
been done in the Congress of Deputies.

Who would have thought
a few years ago, huh?

Yes.

Chin chin...

I want some nougat.

Come on.

Eat, eat.

Try it.

Please...

Well, I'm going to eat some nougat,
give me.

In Brasilia, the political capital
of Brazil...

Zapatero, has begun his first tour
of the Southern Cone.

With Lula, he has highlighted the
political sympathy that unites them.

Yes, tell me.

Yes, on whose behalf?

Just a moment, please.

Yes...

For you, Enric.

Who?

Bermejo told me...
I don't know if Verdejo...

Who?

A historian.

Tell him I'm not here.

I've already told him you're home.

Tell him I'm not here, that
you must have got confused.

Forgive me. I thought you were
you were at home, but you went out.

Can I leave a message for you?

Yes, 91...

NOVEMBER 2001

Enric Marco, isn't it, how are you?

I am Benito Bermejo.

Ah, nice to meet you.

I was looking forward to meeting you.
I read that you were in Flossenbürg, right?

Yes.

Very few Spaniards were
deported to Flossenbürg.

There would be about fifty of us.

No, no, 140.

I am a historian.
I specialize in deportation.

Ah, well. Ah... ready.

In fact, Enric, if you have the time,

I would love to have coffee with you.

To be able to chat for a while.
I'm really curious,

because he tells me his story...

You will like that one very much.

Excuse me, and how much is this book worth?

Look, it costs 3200 pesetas or 20 euros.

Very good.

Look, I could...

Let's do one thing.

Look, why don't you call the association

and we met and talked at length.

I think it's great.

I'll take it, thank you.

Ah, very good. That's great.

Well, shall I call him then?

Please, please.

Thank you very much, eh?

Please.

Thank you. See you soon.

What did you say your name was?

Benito. Benito Bermejo.

Early this morning,
arrived at the Congress of Deputies

the Spanish deportation delegation.

During World War II.

Men and women, who have experienced
on their own flesh

the hell of the Nazi concentration

Today, for the first time in 60 years,

these surviving Spaniards

will receive recognition from
our country's authorities.

Man...

Excuse me, uh...

Let's go.

How are you doing?

Hello.

JANUARY 2005

What's up?

Relax...

Thank you very much.

Hello.

Enric.

I'm sorry your uncle
is not here to see it.

Come on, it will go very well.

We were drowning in our own vomit
and our own feces.

After that,

we arrived at a concentration camp,

with all that coven

and that stage performance

which the Nazis were so jealous of.

Dazzled by the spotlights,

bitten by dogs,

by people in a language we didn't know,

what did we know about links und rechts?

O de fum, profum, what did we
did we know about all that?

Ignorance of a few German words
could cost you your life.

They absolutely stripped us naked,

they took all our belongings,

not only because of rapacity issues, no,

but for leaving us totally unprotected.

An alliance, a chain,

the smallest photograph...

Alone, unprotected, with nothing,

nothing that could remind you of the outside.

Nothing that would remind you of tenderness

of someone who would allow you to
to go on living

in the hope that
you would get it back.

And after, after, what was the after,
you can imagine.

I am not going to make a protocol speech.

Perhaps my words,
are not so heartfelt.

We had no government to help us
and a country to return to.

The Jewish people...

It's been crazy.

They are calling me politicians,
journalists...

What do you say?

That we will do very well with all of this.

What breaks my heart,

is that Maria
cannot live through all of this.

The poor thing worked her fingers to the bone.

Sorry. Look Enric, I want to
introduce you to Bernardino León,

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Pleased to meet you.
You gave a great speech.

Coming from you, it is an honor.

Mr. Leon was telling me that they are
very sensitive over your issue, right?

Yes, without a doubt. And I wanted to
tell you in this regard that

the new government wants to
special emphasis

in what we call historical memory.

Well, you have started it off
on the right foot.

We are a little disappointed
because we were expecting

that President Zapatero
would be here today.

Yes, well. The president is very
sorry he could not be here today,

because it is held in Chile.

But rest assured that you are not
indifferent to is not indifferent to you.

Well, I don't know if you are aware that
this year is the 60th anniversary

of the liberation of the Mauthausen camps.

Of course, the field of the Spanish.

And we are going to do something big
with our French colleagues,

exhibitions, lectures...

Some 30,000 deportees and family members
from around the world are expected to attend.

We are trying to see if
it might be that, for the first time,

Spain will chair the event.

We want Zapatero to come.

Well, José Luis has
a very busy schedule...

This is a great opportunity
for you to demonstrate

who really cares
about this whole historical memory thing.

There are many people in this country
who do not know

that there were many Spaniards in the Nazi
concentration camps.

Let's do one thing.

I get Spain to preside
over the events this year

and you convince Zapatero to come.

How hard it is to make yourself heard!

We are almost nowhere to be seen.

El País does say something.

Hey, Enric,
did Benito Bermejo call you?

The historian? Yes.
No, I have to call him.

I'm sure you want to talk
about something about Antonio Pastor.

No, that's not why.

Oh, no?

It seems that he has doubts of some
of the information in your biography.

He called Paco Aura, the Valencian,
who is the one who called me.

This Benito Bermejo, I do not know
what he has with our association...

Benito? No, man, no.

From what I know of him
he is a very sensible man.

Well, I'll call you back.

Can I have a coffee, please?

Yes, of course.

THE CONGRESS PAYS TRIBUTE TO
THE VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDE

Enric, I'm going to work.

It's okay.

I have left food for you.

Are you going to be okay?

Yes.

Come on. See you later.

Okay.

Yes.

Benito Bermejo?

Yes, it's me.

Hello, Enric Marco here too.

I have heard rumors that
you have doubts about my past...

Yes. Hello, Enric, that's right.

Let me speak first.

I know you're digging around,
which is fine with me.

That's what historians
have to do.

And I wanted to tell you that I am
to clarify any doubts you may have.

But, beyond this,

all this has led me to think

that perhaps, from the association,

we have not been entirely good to you.

No no no no...

It's just that we haven't given you
the place you deserve, have we?

And, in that sense,

I feel, I would do a "mea culpa".

No no no, Enric, really.

I have nothing to blame him for

to the association of deportees.

I do, I do.

Look, I, what I can tell you right now

that the best thing that you and I can do
you and I can do

is to meet as soon as possible, and talk.

You see, Enric, I have found
sensitive information about you.

How?

I know he is lying.

I know he did not forcibly travel to Germany.

On what basis do you say that?

Well, I'm basing this on a
report I found,

and which proves that you traveled to Germany
in the framework of a collaboration agreement

between Franco and Hitler,
between Spain and Germany.

I do not know what agreement
you are talking about.

I believe that yes, he does, Enric.

You're making a mistake,
Benito, I'm sure of it.

And, in any case, these things, the better.

face to face, a chat,
quietly, over a cup of coffee.

And yes, I totally agree, Enric.

Look, next week, in fact,

I have to travel to
Barcelona to give a talk.

If you want to...

Next week I can't (chi la mar).

But I intend to go to
Madrid at the end of the month.

Maybe we could
meet and work it all out.

Yeah, well.

Until then, I would beg you not to go about
spreading things that are not true,

Enric, I just...

Here I also bring you

November and December of '41.

- Thank you.
- You are welcome.

HISPANO-GERMANIC BROTHERHOOD

FAREWELL TO SPANISH WORKERS
LEAVING FOR GERMANY

FRANCO REGIME = REGIME OF TERROR

Amnesty! Freedom!

AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA

Amnesty! Freedom!

MARCH 1969

They will not pass!

What was it?

Jarana.

Enric, look.

I have never seen you before
around the university.

I don't go to college.

So what were you doing
at the demonstration?

Because I have a doctorate
in receiving punches.

- It won't be that big a deal.
- Yes, it is.

He signed me up for the war
at the age of fourteen.

I was in the Battle of the Ebro
in the Durruti Column.

Do the math!

- Did you know Durruti?
- Yes, I did.

But no idealizing...

We did not come out of that war well.

- Sorry.
- Yes, it hurts me there.

We did not come out of that war well.

I can't imagine what that was like.

If I were to explain...

Well, as you can see, today we
have brought comrade Enrique here,

to, well,
tell us a little bit of his story.

Is that okay?

He is going to tell us a little about his
experience in the underground.

In fact,
he was recently released from prison.

That's right.

Well, in fact, he was telling us,
wasn't he? Enrique,

who has therefore undergone
harsh interrogations,

even torture.

So you have a lot to tell us.

- Are you closed?
- Yes, I have.

Good,

You don't see it that way,

because you have experienced
something else.

But we live under
an implacable dictatorship.

Have you heard about UJA?

Of course, of course...

UJA, Union of antifascist youth.

We created it after the war
to fight Franco from within.

I myself set up the Barcelona section,

Recruiting people here and there.

After a few months we were all arrested.

Everyone but me.

Because I was late,
because I was coming

from one of my appointments.

The thing is
that at that time I had to...

I had to flee the country.
I had to leave Spain.

And how did you get out of the country?

Now that's a long story.

Anyway, I'll let you know.

But, in any case, I ended up in Germany,

where I was imprisoned for high treason.

Anyway, my time in Germany
was not exactly a vacation.

Some of us... some of us have
lived through more of a war.

And why don't we talk here about
the German concentration camps?

How?

I am reading this book

and I feel that in Spain

the Nazi concentration camps
were hardly ever discussed.

Little is said, yes.

Yes, little is said.

Sorry!

- Could you show me the book?
- Yes, of course.

It is a translation from French.

Explain and describe, one by one,
the history of the fields.

It is impressive.

It is impressive.

Can I have it for a few days?

Do you know how many Jews
they managed to kill?

Six million.

But how is that going to be?

Six million are about two-thirds
of the Jews here in Europe.

Many Spaniards died.

People need to know this.

Nothing, you go about your business.

This has to be useful...

Come on, in 15 minutes
Tata and Jose will be up.

You will see what you do, but I'm not
running out of hot water today.

Huge towers, very tall,

from which a black smoke was coming out.

It was spitting smoke 24 hours a day.

It was like living in a nightmare.

Constantly.

It was never ending.

If only you could see
the look on their faces.

Oh yeah? And how do they look at you?
Let's see...

Of envy.

But why would they envy you,
if they're loaded with money?

I think they feel guilty because
their parents have done well with Franco.

And they would kill to be what I am.

What are you?

A fighter.

A fighter?
A ghost, that's what you are.

I have not seen that you have done
anything against Franco.

What do you know...

Mom!

I'm coming, I'm coming, Carmencita.

Come on, get dressed.

When you arrived, the guards
would point to the door and say:

"You have entered this way
and you will go out that way".

They pointed to the chimneys.

Who could believe
that such bestiality was true?

That horror!

But how can it be that,
if there were so many Spaniards,

nothing is known here?

Because the dictatorship
does not want it to be known.

He tries to hide it by all means.

You know the close relationship
Franco had with Hitler.

And, on the other hand,

it is not easy for deportees
to talk about it all.

It is not easy.

ASSOCIATION OF DEPORTEES

FEBRUARY 2005

Dear friends,

I am writing again to ask you

the official certificate
of prisoner of the camp...

Enric.

What a scare you gave me!

We are all here, whenever you want.

I'm coming. Hey!

He talked to Bermejo and that was it,
everything was solved.

There is no further problem.

Good, I'm glad.

I'll be right there.

If I tell them yes, and then doesn't
come, we'll make fools of ourselves.

Yes Silvia, look. I will tell the
organizers that Zapatero will come,

and that being so,

The plan is for the Spanish delegation
to preside over the events this year.

But what if he doesn't come?

Now, Silvia, listen to me, listen to me.

Zapatero is coming.
No, I can't tell you anything else.

And you understand me, don't you?

All right, I'm going to talk to them
and I'll let you know if we make it.

Thank you. Thank you.

To you.

Another thing. The speaches
in high schools. There are two.

Badalona and Cerbelló. The dates...

Cerbelló, I'm going myself, I went last
year and they were very happy. I know.

Yes, but I prefer that you stay
with me to prepare the dossier.

Let Pera go, he has nothing to do.

I can do both.

Man, I'm here, doing nothing.

I am free.

When you want to, you hear so well,
don't you?

In principle, let Pera go. Ready.

Are you still here?

Yes, I'm writing a press release...

in case Silvia gives us good news of...

Well, but there will be time.
Go home, you've been here all day.

No, it doesn't matter anymore.

If you want me to go to the schools,
all you have to do is tell me...

Again with that...

Clara, Clara, let's see, let's see,
between you and me.

Let's see.

Pera, Pera is undoubtedly a great person.

and I have infinite respect for him, but...

Frankly, have you heard of it?

Have you heard his speeches?

It has bored even the stones.

Go, Enric...

I'm sorry to be so crude but
people come away disappointed,

This is unforgivable.

Then, the story behind it is a hoax.

I am president of the association
and I have the feeling that...

You are very involved.

The association had never been
as visible as it is today.

That's thanks to you.

But what about health?

Yes, tell me.

Yes, it's me.

Tell me, Silvia.

Can you confirm this 100%?

Thank you very much.

Yes.

Please...

What if Zapatero doesn't come?

What will the Mauthausen people think?
We have told them you will come.

Did you send the press release correctly?
Because no one has come, just this one.

Anytime.

For the first time in history,

the Spanish deportees
have been elected to preside

commemorative events for

the liberation of the Mauthausen camp.

The news came as a surprise,
two days ago, to this local,

located in a central neighborhood
of Barcelona.

Here, everyone is trying to
digest what they consider to be

the best news they could have received.

Isn't that right, Clara?

How did you feel, upon learning
that the Spanish deportees

were to preside over nothing more
and nothing less than these events?

Well, the first thing I felt
felt was the sensation of...

Well, of a very great of honor.

And also a great responsibility.

Everyone is going to be watching us.

And we have to do it very well,
because of... eh....

by the Nazi horror of
all those who were there,

of all the Spaniards who were there.

Okay. Very good.

We have it.

Haven't I been too tense?

Yes, well, I mean, you have
done great, huh?

Excuse me, isn't this going to
look a little fake?

No. This, then you edit it and
it's super-credible, eh. It really is.

Yes, shall we make some recursions
or something?

Come on.

And we have to get it right

for all Spaniards
who suffered the Nazi horror.

Enric Marco, president of
the association of deportees,

and representative of all of them,

is especially touched by this achievement.

He'll undoubtably be a great spokesperson,
but one thing must be made clear.

Whether you are the president
of the largest nations

or a child attending a small
neighborhood school,

the passion we put into conveying
our story is the same.

Little phrases...

It is impossible not to shudder at the
stories that Enric Marco tells us,

like that chess game that could have
changed his life.

I was teaching
a fellow player to play,

when suddenly I saw a shadow
on the board.

I looked up and saw an SS.

For a local television station
not bad at all, right?

- It's very good.
- In fact, my partner sat down
and said we should keep playing.

And I remember, at the time,
I thought "now it's

the time of the gods, now is your time.

I won all the pieces one by one.

He was a match for me.

Until I finally left him alone
with the king.

And I knocked down the king knowing
that it could cost me my life.

But that was the moment
I regained my dignity.

He was no match for me.

Until finally,
I left him alone with the king.

I checkmated, knocked down the king,

knowing that it could cost me my life.

But I had to do it.

That was the moment
they had chosen for me.

They could not take that moment
away from me, no way.

I was totally convinced

that I had recovered
as a human being.

That day... I regained my dignity.

I won the Battle of Stalingrad.

That day I regained my dignity.

I won the battle of Stalingrad.

What stories!

Well, to wrap things up,

What would be the profile of the
Spaniards who were were imprisoned there,

in Mauthausen, for example?

What do you mean, parsley?

The profile, the profile of the deportees.

Frankly, you can't understand it,

because, frankly, not by a long shot...

Yes... Where is this going to come out?

This is for the regional section

of Lower Aragon.

Very good.

Yes, but you have not published

that Spain will preside
for the first time.

In May, when the events take place,
we will certainly talk about it.

I see that things don't change.

Then you will come to us and say that we
finally give you the place you deserve,

that if it's a big deal, it's a big deal.

Hey, do I really have to kill
someone to get you to listen to me?

Let's see, Enric,
what you can't pretend to do

is to be in the media every day.

Yes, tell me.

Enric Marco?

Yes.

One moment, please.
I'll put you through to Mr. Leon.

Enric.

Hi, I'm Bernardino León.

Yes, yes. Well, the secretary said to me
"I will put you through to Mr. León".

But I didn't know if I expected the roar.

I am the congressman.

Yeah. Uh... I was... I was kidding.

You have us on tenterhooks.

What's new?

Yes, the president
will gladly attend the event.

Right now you symbolize
everything for which

our government wants to fight.

Do you really mean it?

Listen to me, Enric, we want you
to have the exposure you deserve.

Clara! Santi!

For the Association.

Yes, sir.

Health.

I didn't give a penny, huh?
I gave you one too.

I didn't give a penny, eh...

The only one who had it
clear from the beginning.

Very tasty.

We have to get to work,
because time is running out.

First of all, we have to decide who is
going to give the speech at Mauthausen.

Me, as you wish.

Well, I think you are
the right person, Enric.

You know Mauthausen, you are
in the International Committee,

In addition,
he has already given a speech in Congress.

For me it's you, Enric.

Me, as you wish. If you want me to do it
I will have no problem doing it.

Well, frankly, I think it's
that it is much better to have

someone who was in Mauthausen,
not in another camp.

And who do you propose?

Eusebi Pérez. He is a good candidate,
isn't he?

Ah, Eusebi. Eusebi, yes.

Ah, of course, Eusebi.

Yes, it is very good.
Eusebi is a very good choice.

A great person, he has suffered
and deserves it, without a doubt.

Of course he is.

A resident is not someone,
who has a way with words

and I don't know if we would be missing
an opportunity to send a strong message.

In other words, other factors,
must really

be taken into account,
not just having been there.

Are you telling me
me that you don't give any

importance to having been in Mauthausen?

Having suffered and having
been witness to all the

indescribable horrors
that have been suffering there.

No, no, no.

Is it of no importance?
Is that what you say?

No, no, what I am saying
is that sometimes it is more

important how they tell you,
than who tells it to you.

What's the point of having been there,
if you don't know how to tell it,

you don't know how to convey it,
if you don't move people?

But, as you wish, eh?

We should take advantage of the fact that
all the media will be paying attention to us.

Totally.

And in this field Enric is very skilled.

I don't think there is that much difference
between Mauthausen or Flossenbürg.

I also vote for Enric.

I think he's the best.

In this case I will start
to prepare the speech.

I want it to be a consensual speech.

That is to say, it is not Enric
Marco speaking, no.

There are about 9,000 Spanish deportees
who speak through the mouth of Enric Marco.

This must be done of course.

How beautiful it is.

But how can it be so precious.

Are you okay?

I am, dad, tired but fine.

Oh, how precious!

He laughed.

Yes.

And with your grandmother?

Let's see, let's see,
let's see with grandma.

Oh, how strange.

It's a good thing I'm not at home,
my child.

No, much better, and I'm telling you
someone who was born in an asylum.

April 14, 1921, 10 years
before the creation of the Republic.

Yes.

My mother went to San Bóin, 7 months pregnant
in San Boin, and never came out again.

Enric, for God's sake, the
protagonist today is the child.

Indeed.

He says hello.

Enric, Enric.

Look, with the little hand.

He came out a communist.

Don't you see? Try again?

No, no.

Enric, I have finished proofreading.

Shall we have dinner?

Yes.

Speech?

Outline.

A bit solemn, isn't it?

A little bit theatrical.

What do you mean?

Well, you tend to embellish
the stories a little bit, don't you?

Ah, that's good, isn't it?

So come on, let's go to dinner.

Laura, how have you seen Aina?

Well, why?

I don't know. All this talk about
postpartum depression...

She has just given birth, Enric.

I am afraid she will fall again.

But if she's perfectly fine,
she's stronger than ever.

We have a beautiful grandson.

We are doing well.

Yes, isn't it?

I'm afraid of things in my head.

Well, don't make
stories where there are none.

Come on, let's go to dinner.

There. We give it here...

Hello.

Well, here.

Can you take the fax, please?

Now, you hit it there.

Dale.

WE NEED TO TALK,

OTHERWISE I WILL BE FORCED
TO TAKE ACTION.

What is it?

No, propaganda.

Propaganda?

By fax, here.

It has cost us a lot to get here.

Possibly more than those
deportees from any other country.

That is why we would like to thank
the President, Rodríguez Zapatero.

I will still name him,
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

A president who a few months ago
reestablished peace in Spain...

by withdrawing troops from the Iraq war.

We Spaniards were the first ones
to enter the Mauthausen...

Enric, are you sure?

Are you going to get involved in Iraq?

Do you think that will matter
to those gathered there?

Benito Bermejo is on the phone.

Tell him I can't now.

Enric, he has called several times.
I don't know what to say to him anymore.

Bermejo, the historian.

Yes.

Enric is going to call back, huh?

So, what do you want me to do?

No, not now.

What do you want me to tell him?

Because I can't!

Tell him we can't now.

Tell him I'll call him back later.

Later, do me a favor, Santi.

You were saying?

We were deviating from
what historical memory is...

to enter into a subject,
that I do not know if it is relevant.

Not coming today?

No, I have to run
a couple of errands, thank you.

Sorry for yelling at you,
I'm a little nervous.

- We have a lot of work to do.
- Don't worry, it's okay.

Has Bermejo said anything to you?

No, nothing.

But he seems very restless.

So much for being silly.

But I already talked to him,
I called him.

You also told me
that you had solved it.

This man,
can't he wait two weeks?

Enric, if so, why don't you just
clear it up and be done with it?

Because we deserve a little respect!

Let him wait for two weeks!

I don't understand
why you are so stubborn.

The only thing missing is for me
to get that you distrust me.

I arrive here at eight o'clock
in the morning.

And how long will I be here?

I go to all the schools in Catalonia.

All schools,
doing grassroots work.

I will pester everyone to raise funds.

Do I get anything out of it?
I don't think I'm a suspect.

Santi, listen,
we are at a crucial moment.

I need you to be by my side.

Enric, I am always by your side.

But talk to Bermejo, please!

No.

Yes?

Enric Marco.

Hello, Enric.

I haven't called you until now,
because we have a lot of work to do.

But I want you to know that I have
no problem talking to you.

What happens is that just now that we know
what is going to happen in Mauthausen,

with the presence of the President
of the Zapatero and others,

understand that we have to focus on that.

And are you going to give the speech?

If my colleagues so decide, yes.
Why?

Don't do it, Enric. Please don't.

If you do, the consequences
can be dire.

Is that a threat?

Look, take it as you will.

I'm just telling you that we either meet
immediately or I'm not going to have any...

Hey, Benito, what are you looking for?

Set yourself up as the great historian,
that everyone talks about you, right?

The great historian Benito Bermejo
discovered

that Enric Marco did not go to Germany
this way, but rather the other way.

But what are you saying? No.

No, Enric. No, you don't.

Are you willing to tarnish
the good name of the

Association for your five
minutes of glory, right now,

when the deportees are about to
get the tribute they deserve?

Is that it? Do you know the damage
you would do, not just to me, but to me?

I don't care anymore,
but to all deportees?

No, don't go off on a tangent, don't
go off on a tangent,

as this is not about me
or the deportees,

that this is about you, about Enric
Marco and what Enric Marco does.

This is something very big for us and
for the Association and for all of Spain.

Careful, Benito, careful,
or you'll regret it.

How?

Enric Marco.

Enric Marco.

And the last one.

Enric Marco.

With 92% of the votes, Enric Marco

will continue to be the
president of the Association.

What's up? How are you?
How's it going?

What? Is something wrong?

Well, something seems to be
happening, yes.

Santi has received a
report from Benito Bermejo.

Again? I really don't know what
to do with this man,

I don't know if it is for me,
it's for the Association...

Enough, Enric!

I have read it.

Well, well, Santi, this is not the
time to talk about it now.

Send me the report when you get home.

Let's all meet tomorrow afternoon
at the headquarters, yes?

Very good.

Good evening, Bernardino.

Sorry to call you on a Sunday,
at this hour.

Please, Enric, I already told you that
you could call me whenever you wanted.

How was the assembly?

All right, all right.
I've been re-elected president.

Great, I'm glad.

Well, then, everything okay?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, but you called me.

Everything all right there?

Yes, yes, well, with the
last minute tensions,

but nothing that can't be solved.

Tomorrow has already passed,
we are traveling to Austria,

we have a meeting on Wednesday
to finalize the preparations...

Very well.
I will arrive Wednesday night.

We will see you there.

The president is very excited
about these events.

Apparently they came to
your house, because you

had not presented yourself
for military service.

Your family said you were
working in Germany.

To verify whether this was true,
the military authorities of Barcelona

submitted the query to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

And here is the reply.

The ministry said that yes,

that you indeed volunteered
as a laborer.

And in case we don't realize
what this means,

Bermejo has attached some photos
of when you left for Germany.

What a shame!

What a shame!

The train left on November 27, 1941
1941 from the France station,

in Barcelona, bound for
the city of Kiel, Germany.

Enrique, is this true?

Yes.

It carried 650 Spanish workers

to be incorporated as a labor force
in companies

in the midst of World War II.

These employees would work for
the arsenal of the Nazi army.

Manufacturing weapons?

Fuck!

May I speak? Yes, you may.

I went on that train,
but what could I do?

I had to leave the country,
the police were chasing me,

it the best way I found to
get out of the country,

but then why did I end up
in Flossenbürg?

Because I rebelled.

Enric, are you sure you
you were in Flossenbürg?

No, I don't allow you to do that,
huh?

As it turns out,
I was not in Flossenbürg either,

Of course I was in Flossenbürg.
There you have it.

Deported 6448, that's it.

From Bermejo's report the conclusion is
not that Enric was not in Flossenbürg,

simply that he did not go to
Germany as a deportee.

But...

But who took this for granted?

This is nothing more than
a photocopy of the registration.

It is not the official certificate
of the field, it is not.

There's my name.

Why don't you have an official
certificate like everyone else?

There's my name, that's right.

I went as a volunteer worker in
Germany, with Franco, yes, it's true.

But why did I end up in Flossenbürg?

Because, first I was
taken to prison in Kiel,

then there was a trial and
I ended up in Flossenbürg.

That's right, that's right.

But why didn't you
you say it in the first place?

I do not know.

I do not know.

People were waiting,
they had a reference in me,

they wanted someone who would give them strength
to fight against Franco and I don't know how.

How could I tell you that you
had volunteered to go to Germany?

Well, I lied.

And I have maintained that
lie to this day, well, yes.

Yes, all of a sudden.

And now I am going to confess something
else that I didn't have to confess,

but you are like family
and I can trust you.

I had another wife and a daughter,
and I abandoned them.

But no, please don't tell Laura.
Laura, I want her to hear it through my mouth.

These lies weigh heavily on me, but from there,
to say that I was not a prisoner in Germany...

Well, of course I was imprisoned in Germany,

I believe that I was imprisoned in Germany.

But hey, I failed you.

I regret it and will never forgive myself,

especially for you, Santi, especially
for you and your organization.

I know, I know, I know, I know.

That's it. No more lies, that's it.

Do we know who else
received this report?

Yes, he told me he was going to
send it to the presidency of the

government, the regional government
and other deportees.

Then we have to talk to the government
and with the regional government.

Oh, and if they hadn't
received the report, right?

What do you mean?

You just said that we can talk to them
because they received the report,

if they had not received it,
would we continue with Enric's lie?

I did not mean that.

You just said it.
No, no, don't mess with me.

Clara, you just said it.

Well, but I didn't mean that.

You said.

Santy, this is too big for us.
All of us.

I am trying to see what we can do.

I am not an expert.

Do you know what we have to do,
you tell me.

Everything is ready, Zapatero
is going to be there, what do we do?

It is a priority that nothing
clouds the celebrations.

I think that, for the time being,
even if we don't say anything,

Enric can no longer be president.

But you are right.

Let's vote.

Votes in favor of relegating
Enric from his position.

Enric, you are relieved of all your
functions as president of the association.

As vice-president, I will assume
functions for the time being, shall I?

Tomorrow we will call the presidency and the
regional government to see what they think.

Give me the telephone number of
Bernardino León, please.

No, no, let me call him, please.

Come on, Enric, now. Give me the phone.

Hello...

Hello.

I am making omelet.

Oops.

What's wrong with you?

Nothing.

Are you okay?

Everything is going to be fine.

Come on, help me,

What happened then?

Go ahead.

Yes.

Okay.

Hey, what's up? What's up?
Good morning.

But you come to Mauthausen?

Well, didn't you have to come or what?

I thought yesterday
we had agreed not to.

That he wasn't president, but not
that he didn't have to come, right?

Up.

LINZ, AUSTRIA

COMMEMORATIVE CEREMONY FOR
THE LIBERATION OF THE CAMP

MAY 2005

Hello.

What's up? How was your trip?

Good. We are in a hurry, the International
Committee meeting starts in an hour.

Come on, we're on our way.

No, Enric. You are not coming.
You'd better stay in your hotel room.

They are having meetings in Barcelona.

When we have something you should know,
we will let you know.

Let's go.

Bernardino.

How are you? How are you?
I'm Enric Marco.

You will see that you have had
several calls from me.

I'm calling you from Linz.

Some of the
associations are already here,

at the Linz hotel.

I seem to remember
you said you were arriving today.

Well, call me when you can,

I have to tell you something.

My room is the 312.

FLOSSENBÜRG, GERMANY

MEETING OF FORMER DEPORTEES

JULY 1999

Please, everyone look this way.

Without moving.

Please wait.

Thank you.

My colleague Johannes
has been reviewing the lists,

looking for Spanish deportees,

but we can't find anything
that matches your version.

We have an Enric M. here.
I think it says "Enric Moner...

That's me!

This, this is me.

It doesn't say Marco,
it says Enric Moner, from Figueres.

Are you from Figueres?

No, he is from Barcelona.

It is very close.

Enric, from what I see here,

Moner's story does not match

with the one you told me about
a few months ago.

Moner did not arrive from Kiel,

he was transferred from the
Buchenwald concentration camp.

Yes, but, as I said,

this is me: Enric Moner.

I did not give my real name.

I lied to the SS out of fear,
for my family.

But there is direct data from the SS
that do not match either.

They lied, that's not true.

Now I remember this name,

Enric Moner, of course.

This number: 6448.

I am sure of it.

If you say so, I will not refute it.

But can you give me
an official document of this number?

5448, please.

Sorry, but we can't do that.

Why not?

Because we are not sure
that you are that person.

There are people who lie about this
to get a pension,

as victims of Nazism.

He has to give us something more.

We will continue to investigate and,
if we find anything,

we will let you know.

Thank you.

Let's go.

Enjoy.

Good.

Enjoy.

Thank you.

You are welcome.

Have you been down for a while?

Half an hour ago.

And when did you arrive?

A while ago.

On the afternoon flight.

Didn't we go to the meeting?

We were right to decide not to come.
They knew about you.

It has leaked.

We have not been.

Are you sure?

Enrique, it must have been Bermejo,
but that doesn't matter now.

Look, look, look, look, I don't care.

I've been in the room all day,
alone, blind.

Nobody tells me anything,
nobody picks up my phonecalls.

Can you tell me something?

In Barcelona they have been talking with the
regional government and with the government.

And everyone agrees that right now

the essential thing is to save
the acts of Mauthausen.

So, for the time being,
nothing will be said.

Okay.

They have decided to remove you from
everything related to the events.

So you're out.

And who is going to give the speech?

Eusebi Pérez.

If I'm annoying, I'll leave, huh?

If I'm here bothering you,
I will pack my things and go.

Enric, don't go there.

Enric, were you in Flossenbürg?

Again with that, please,
it's been told to you a thousand times.

Can you provide proof, real proof,
that you were in Flossenbürg?

Yes or no.

When I get home I will manage
to get the the proof.

No, it has to be today.

The Zapatero team has said that if all of this
is not clarified with all the guarantees,

Zapatero will not appear at the event.

So new opportunity, Enric.

Have you been to Flossenbürg?

Yes, damn it!

And I don't know anymore. Forgive me,
I don't know how to tell you...

This is harassment and demolition,
it seems to me.

We have sent your registration
photocopy to the Flossenbürg camp.

Yes, we have asked them if,
as indicated in that photocopy,

prisoner number 6448
corresponds to Enric Marco.

We are waiting for a response.

They will be able to confirm it to us,
Enric.

Tell us.

Please.

The truth.

Have you been to Flossenbürg?

No.

Son of a bitch.

Son of a bitch!

Wait, take it easy.

Can you calm down?

He was about to make a speech
on our behalf, don't you understand?

Excuse me, they are asking for Juan Gil.

It's me.

Mr. Bernardino León
has just arrived and wants to see you.

Thank you, come with me.

Yes, I'm coming.

Where are you going?

No, I have to talk.

No, no, no.

Enric, please.

No, please, let me.

Enric, you are not going.

Sit down.

He said he doesn't want to see you.

How could you do this to me...?

To me?

Enric...?

Well, well, what are you doing here?

I am not feeling well.

The doctor told me
that I have to rest.

Which physician?

I'm going to get in bed.

How?

Enric...

Leave me alone.

I bow, with respect, in the name
of all the Spanish people.

This is the first time that a
representative of the Spanish government

attends a tribute of this kind.

Enric Marco, president of the Spanish
Association of Spanish Deportees

is to speak alongside Zapatero.

But he has suddenly returned to Barcelona

because he was indisposed.

Eusebi Pérez spoke in his place,

one of the deportees, who experienced
the Nazi barbarism.

We Spaniards were the first
to enter Mauthausen.

And the last to leave.

Because no country claimed us.

No one recognized our history.

While we saw that in one country
after another,

they honored and feted the survivors
of the concentration camps.

Five thousand of them
never left from here.

For them, the inscription on this door
was done,

a quote from Dante's "Inferno":

"Ye that enter in,
leave here all hope."

"I, Enric Marco Valle, would like to
acknowledge the following points.

One.

To have left for Germany on
an expedition of Spanish workers

at the end of 1941."

We are now going to talk about
a lie, that of Enric Marco,

The president of the main...

"Two.

Not having been interned
in the camp at Flossenbürg

despite having been held
in preventive detention

and charged with conspiracy
against the Third Reich."

Tributes to the victims
of the Nazi holocaust.

The biggest scam I have
have seen in recent times.

As long as it's true, huh?

Deceiving so many people
for so many years...

A terrible lie...

Everything was made up.
Everything was a farce.

"Three.

Having returned to Spain
during the beginning of 1943,

after being released."

For thirty years he has lectured.

He has even written a book about his...

"Four.

To have made my biography public,
with aspects that distort reality,

in 1978,

long before my involvement with the
to the Association of Deportees,

which is limited to the last six years."

He lied for 30 years
making everyone believe

that he was a deportee
from the Nazi extermination camp.

Until now, that is,
that it has been discovered.

He says he lied to better convey
the horror of the Holocaust.

The lie was confessed
by Marco himself.

After an investigator noted the
inconsistencies in his testimony.

Historian Benito Bermejo has not
yet wanted to make a statement...

From the Association,
we want to make it clear

that this case should not cloud
the work we are doing.

Deportation is far beyond
a person's deception.

But it is clear, that the damage
which this can do is enormous.

This is fodder for the denialists.

"And five.

As a consequence,
I hereby resign from my positions,

and I am suspending my activities in
the Spanish Association of Deportees.

On May 9, 2005, in Barcelona."

What will I tell Pau when he grows up?

The truth.

The truth?

Oh, my God, dad.

It's hard to believe you have
so much nerve.

Have you explained the truth
to your colleagues?

To the people who were
in a concentration camp?

Or can't they look at your face
because of the disgust you give?

Hey, daughter, knock it off.

No, not "enough is enough".

Let...

No, don't defend yourself!

What was missing, let's go.

Listen, listen.

I was in a prison in Kiel.

That's true, huh?

I have been through
some very hard things.

Not everything I said is a lie.

Dad, are you comparing a prison
to a concentration camp?

- It's just unbelievable.
- You're not listening to me.

No! I'm just waiting for you
to apologize or something!

Listen to me, Aina,
I was in Germany!

I was a victim of the Nazis!
The Nazis put me in jail!

What are you saying?

Calm down, please, we're not
going to fix anything.

No, I don't want to fix anything.

I just want him to apologize
and that's it.

But I was in a prison!
I had a tiny space!

I couldn't see!
I was in great distress.

Nobody knows what I have suffered, eh?

Dad, everyone will see me
as the daughter of an impostor!

Do you understand that?
And what do I do?

Do I do like you?

I make up my own story and that's it,
right?

Aina, everyone makes up
a little bit of their own story.

And the fact is...

What about you? You don't say
nothing. You keep quiet, as always,

looking to the side every time he lies.

Leave your mother alone!

I just knew that something like this
could happen. I knew.

What, what, what. That you thought
that you were fooling everyone,

and what you didn't know is that
they were cheating on you.

Making you believe they believed it all.

What do you think,
that we don't feel it?

There are more things...

There is more to your life.

That's enough, Aina.

What do you think?

Why... why... why...?

Can I tell you?
Can I tell you what I think?

Aina, please...

Before you met mom,
what was your life like?

Hey, shut up!

No, no, no...

Shut up immediately!

No, no, no. You tell me.

No!

Yes, what do you want to know?

No! No! Why?

Why?!

All, all the shit about it and...
Marco...

But no, I didn't go.

I did not go. And I say,

Why did you believe me so much?

You must have some interest
in believing me so much...

Enric Marco has been the victim
of an unprecedented media lynching.

Nothing was known,
and then I started to make my way,

to open, to open slowly
and start giving...

to give a voice to all these deportees.

I can't deny that.

I was just saying that.
Now Enric Marco arrives here,

And I went in.
And it's been a concentration camp.

They would all turn and look at you.

It seems that I am
the worst criminal in history.

Man, it is no right.
I haven't hurt anyone.

And yes, why was I doing it.
What people can't get into their heads

is that I did it purely
for the sake of doing it.

Not for making money.

I've never made a dime from it, ever.

Who has not lied at some time?

I just think it's so funny.

People say "Marco has lied.
Marco lied.

Take a look inside.
Look inside yourselves.

And they want me to continue lecturing?

I don't know if they will want to,
but if they want to,

I will be delighted to.

I'll tell you another thing, the
lectures would not vary much.

And it seems that people
liked to listen to them.

Thank you very much, Enric Marco.

Thank you.

Who has lied the most about
Enric Marco?

Enric Marco?

Every year, a party,

a flower, a souvenir,

FOUR YEARS AFTER THE SCANDAL...

five minutes of speech,

and, if there is room,
to unveil a plaque.

And till next year.

PREVIEW OF THE FILM
“ICH BIN ENRIC MARCO”

Although, if I were to ask for forgiveness
everyone would be more satisfied,

Except me, of course.

What the hell do I have to apologize for?

Of the consequences?

I do regret that.

I do regret that.

But apologize for what?

What crime have I committed?

What crime did I commit?

I don't know.

If that is what is expected of me,

to be forgiven, and who knows?

What little shame.

Let those who can judge me, judge me.

What little shame.

He has deceived us...

He fooled us... He fooled us.

I should have said no.

He has misrepresented everything.
That is not me.

I'd say, it's pretty much you,
mind you.

Why?

Don't you think it's time
to stop now, Enric?

That's four years, already.

We have already forgiven you.

What more do you want?

I can't leave it like this.

May it be so... and may it be...

I cannot give up the fight.

What struggle?

First came the anarchists,

then the unions, then the deportees.

What is your struggle, then, Enric?

TEN YEARS AFTER THE SCANDAL...

He is a man who has spent
his life locked up in a workshop

here, in Hospitalet.

And at the age of fifty,
when the transition came in Spain,

and everyone turns around,

he reinvents himself.

He becomes a war hero,

a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance,

a hero of the anti-Francoist
resistance.

He had done absolutely none of it.

And he leads a hero's life,
changes wives, changes jobs.

Changes the place where he lives,

changes his name.

And he wants to be loved...

Yes...

...like everyone else.

Only he does it the hard way....

But what I was getting to...

I knew there was something there
that mattered a lot to me.

That is, all the topics, all the
subjects, all the books

have a superficial and a deep theme.

What are you saying? Shut up!

Marco is the superficial subject
of this book.

In the end,
he does not talk about Marco.

This book talks about other things.

Marco is the instrument I use,

to talk about things
that concern us all.

To you, to me, to everyone...

You bastard, you phony!

How much you love the camera!

Oh, how the camera turns them on!

What a desire for the limelight he has....

The fact that we are all are,
in some way, phonies.

- Yes?
- Aina.

Hello.

Have you read the book?

Dad, I'm not going to read the book.

This Cercas has done
whatever he wanted to do.

He has manipulated everything.
And I tell you one thing...

Dad, listen to me.
Do you cook anything?

What do you make for yourself to eat?

Yes, yesterday I made lentils,
like mom's.

Yes? I am not convinced.

Is Pau here?

No, Pau is with friends.

If you want, when I get there,
I'll tell him to call you.

Yes, and...

Dad, I'll leave you,
I'm doing things.

I'll try to stop by tomorrow, okay?

- See you tomorrow.
- A kiss.

Goodbye.

JAVIER CERCAS WILL DISCUSS ENRIC
MARCO AT THE OLOT LITERARY MEETINGS.

APRIL 2016

Mita's question is quite right:
"Why 'Enric Marco'?".

When in the fall of 2014,

Maria's novel appeared
and then mine,

someone asked me:
"How curious that there are two novels,

at the same time about...

More or less! Now we'll talk about it.

"...more or less on the same topic."

And I said to him:
"No! The strange thing is the contrary!".

That thirty would not have appeared!

Because we are talking about
a very beastly thing.

I think that maybe I should remember...

- Liar!
- Briefly...

the dimension
of what we are talking about.

Liar!

Man! We have Enric Marco here.

No need to say hello. Liar!

It's Enric Marco. It's fantastic
to have our character here.

I have come just to let you know
that I am still alive.

Man, but I already knew that!

Of course.
But if you want you can come here.

There is no problem.

Man, this is...

Enric, do you want to come here?

What if I want to come to your side?

But how could you even think of it!
With the lies you have told!

- How did you think of that? Liar!
- Which one?

The only thing he has done
is pick up a dummy,

to put it his way,
to say what he wanted.

How could you even think of that!

- I don't know, what do we do now?
- I'm coming!

- We continue.
- Do you think so?

Yes, and so much so.

No, but he can talk, huh?

- Yes, you can do it.
- Of course you can.

- Evidently.
- No writer or anything else!

Since the Soldados de Salamina,
he hasn't written anything!

He has only taken one man,
regardless of the truth.

That's what he has done with me!

Vargas Llosa's friend!

Let's see...

- Wre you prepared?
- No, I was not prepared.

- How strong!
- Because it is very good.

No, no, let's see...

It doesn't happen often that the
character is introduced here...

OCTOBER 2016

Here, have a sausage.
I'll treat you to a coffee.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I was wrong about you.

Now, over time, I have come to
realize that you have not tried

to take advantage of
the media spotlights.

What do you want, Enric?

I suggest that you write a book.

Me?

A book of what?

I have been collecting documentation

to tell the truth about my life.

I have here the supporting documents...

Truly.
I was a prisoner in the Kiel prison.

I have the birth certificate,

that proves
that I was born in a madhouse.

How am I going to write
a book about you?

Why do you say so?
Because of Cercas' book?

I mean, a book written with rigor.

You wrote
a solo book by Francesc Boix.

But Francesc Boix
is a deportee, a real one.

He was in a concentration camp,

photographed Mauthausen,
testified at Nuremberg...

I don't want to compare myself,

but my life,
perhaps it also deserves to be told.

It cannot be said that of Enric Marco
only was an impostor.

No.

Let's see, Enric.

I am a historian.

I specialize in deportation.

My job is to seek the truth and tell it.

I have no use for lies.

But through my lie,
you can tell the truth.

I don't know if you understand.

You can talk about
the deportees through me.

I don't understand what you want, Enric.

I have nothing else.

Do you have nothing else?

But come on, is there nothing else to it?

To be published
in the newspapers again,

to be brout up again?

What for?

No.

I am very sorry, Enric.

Really.

There are hardly any deportees left.

Think about it.

I will insist.

No, no, no. Take this with you.

Thank you.

Enric Marco died in 2022,
at the age of 101.

He continued to defend "his truth",
until his last breath.

In 2024, a film was made
about these events.

Although committed to truthfulness,

it was inevitable that it would fall
into fabrication.