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Film · 2017

Errementari (the devil and the blacksmith)

Original titleErrementari. El herrero y el diablo

Directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo · starring Kandido Uranga, Uma Bracaglia and Eneko Sagardoy

  • 6.2 AverageMovieNCo
  • 6.1 Users5 votes
  • 6.3 Critics2 reviews
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Synopsis

Alex de la Iglesia presents Errementari (the devil and blacksmith) a story set 10 years after the first spanish Carlist War (1833) where in a small town of Alaba a government commissioner called Alfredo investigates a new case of a mysterious blacksmith's deep in the woods. There lives a dangerous and weird blacksmith called Patxi and there are a lot of dark and satanic stories about him until an orphan child, Usue goes into the woods and discovers the truth about the story behind the blacksmith myth and the horror stories everyone tells around town. The film is the debut of the director Paul Urkijo Alijo and, the economic support of ICAA and Basque Government and it is inspired in a traditional basque story called "Patxi Errementaria"

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Runtime
98 min1 hour and 38 minutes
How long is Errementari (the devil and the blacksmith)?
1 hour and 38 minutes (98 minutes).
Who directed Errementari (the devil and the blacksmith)?
Paul Urkijo Alijo.
Who is in Errementari (the devil and the blacksmith)?
It stars Kandido Uranga, Uma Bracaglia, Eneko Sagardoy and Ramón Agirre.
Where can I watch Errementari (the devil and the blacksmith)?
In the UK it is available with a subscription on Netflix.
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Cast

Full cast (18)
Director
Paul Urkijo Alijo
Writers
Paul Urkijo Alijo, Asier Guerricaechevarría
Music
Pascal Gaigne
Producers
Carolina Bang, Álex de la Iglesia, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Kiko Martínez

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Reviews

All 2 reviews
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What the critics say average 6.3 from 2 outlets

  • 7.5 FotogramasRicardo Aldarondo "Nothing of doctrine: the humor a little self-critical also comes in this acute and ingenious oscillation between the good humanity and the badness." Both the blacksmith and the Devil are… Read
  • 5.0 CinemaníaYago García "'Errementari' reacts to these oblivions by displaying virtues such as his animated prologue, his mossy setting and a memorable Eneko Sagardoy with tail, horns and trident, but besides being run… Read

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Trivia

  • Inspired in a basque child story

    The idea of 'Errementari (the blacksmith and the devil)' is inspired in a traditional basque child story called "Patxi Errementaria" which tell the story about an evil blacksmith who is feared even by the Demon itself.

  • The language of the movie is a lost dialect of euskera

    In the film based in XIX century they use a lost dialect of euskera language and they had to hire an investigator and linguist Koldo Zuazo.

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