Fiesta Pagäna

Playing heavy metal with fiddles and flutes sounded like a joke in late 1980s Madrid. A group of friends did it anyway, and the band they formed, Mägo de Oz, went on to become one of the biggest names in Spanish language rock. Uruguayan director Álvaro Brechner, who won a Goya for the script of 'La noche de 12 años', tells their story in 'Fiesta Pagäna', a drama that uses the real events as its starting point.

It all starts with drummer Txus di Fellatio, a van and the musicians he gradually brings together, singer José Andrëa among them. Then success arrives, and with it the egos, the creative rows, the excess and the pressure of an industry that now sees them as a business. As Brechner puts it, the real question is how a band that's got what it wanted can survive itself.

Adrián Lastra plays Txus and Adrià Mondaray is José Andrëa, with Jorge López, Carlos Librado, Guillermo Furiase, Jon Arias and Marc Parejo among the other band members. Mexican actress Michelle Renaud plays singer Patricia Tapia, while Roberto Álamo and Antonio Dechent play two of their producers. Sofía Cuenca wrote the script from 400 pages of interviews with the musicians, and it was shot over thirteen weeks in Madrid, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura.

After its world premiere at Mexico's Morelia Film Festival on 22 October 2026, it opened in Spanish cinemas on 6 November. The band has disowned it, though: the producers registered 'Fiesta pagana', the name of one of their best known songs, and violinist Moha has threatened legal action. Former bassist Peri, on the other hand, is an executive producer. Its average across the nine outlets collected on Movienco is 6.1 out of 10.

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