Long Journey to Rage
(Largo Viaje hacia la Ira)
Llorenç Soler / Spain / 1969 / 26 min
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About the Director
After engaging in various activities such as industrial expertise, taurine critic, poetry, painting and drawing, he wrote about film in Critica. In 1964 he became a professional, making advertising and industrial films, gathering a filmography of twenty-four titles in 16mm films and five 35 mm. He worked in collaboration with sociologists, urban planners, architects, psychiatrists, and others on a wide variety of subjects. Titles as Sera tu Tierra (1966) 52 Sunday (1967), The Long Journey to rage (1969), or Survive in Mauthausen (1975) will become authoritative examples of the documentary film protest Spanish. Soler is notable for over 60 titles behind him, and a line of consistent and persistent work complemented by his work in television as a director, his work with video, and the shooting of his first two fiction films Said (1999) and Lola Sells Here (2001).