Marco

The story of a hugely charismatic man who, for years, served as the speaker of the Spanish association of Holocaust victims, and who kept alive, before the media, within his own association, and even within his own family, a highly complex fabrication: He claimed to be a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, a fact that turned out to be a shameful lie.

An effective thriller about the most shameless impostor in our history.

The impressively internalised performance of veteran Spanish actor Eduard Fernandez as Marco, whose home-dyed hair and moustache become an objective correlative of his fakery, is matched by Nathalie Poza’s affecting turn as his devoted wife of many years.

Just like Marco’s fabricated tale, the fictionalized cinematic rendition shouldn’t be taken to heart as the complete truth. In the realm of moving images, “Marco” aims to deconstruct acts of storytelling under the instruction of recontextualized history.

Biography, Drama
Spain (Spanish, Catalan, English)
1h 48min