- El Lobo
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name = El Lobo
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director =Miguel Courtois
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starring = Eduardo NoriegaJosé Coronado Mélanie Doutey
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runtime = 134 mins
country =Spain
language = Spanish
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imdb_id = 0385842"El Lobo" ("The Wolf" in English) is a film directed by
Miguel Courtois . It stars Eduardo Noriega.Plot
Lobo is based on the life of
Mikel Lejarza , an agent of the Spanish intelligence service in the 1970s. During the last stages of Franco's dictatorship between 1973 and 1975. Lejarza infiltratedETA , a paramilitary group seeking independence for the Basque Country, and was responsible for the fall of one quarter of the terrorist activists of the organisation - including Special Forces members and some top-level figures of the group.Lobo's operation destabilized the terrorist organization at a time when its actions were becoming a perfect validation for the most conservative arm of the Franco regime to take full powers and stop all democratic process in Spain.
The Lobo operation hindered the terrorists’ plans to escape from the prison where they were held and a campaign of blind attacks across the country.
Lobo was a man betrayed and ruined by the Spanish dictatorship secret services, who although at first hiring him to help them stop the
ETA tried to get rid of him later on when he became less useful to them. Although this did not stop Lobo and he kept on in with mission and it led to the most successful mission ever held againstETA by the Spanish Government.Because of his betrayal, ETA sentenced Lobo to death and covered the whole Basque country with search posters of Mikel Lejarza, hoping that their supporters would aid in the capture and destruction of 'the wolf.' As a result Mikel had to change his name and face and disappear without a trace. The memory of Lobo is so vivid to ETA that its members always carry around a bullet bearing his name to kill him if they ever meet or see him.
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