The latest film directed by Fernando Trueba and scripted by David Trueba, El olvido que seremos, starring Javier Cámara in the leading role of the doctor Héctor Abad Gómez, who was murdered in 1987 in Medellín by paramilitary groups, opens in cinemas today.
The film, which won this year’s Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film, tells the intimate story of the life of a good man, the doctor Héctor Abad Gómez, a charismatic social leader and family man, a prominent doctor and human rights activist in the polarised and violent Medellín of the 1970s. The story recounts the life of the doctor, a family man concerned both for his children and for the children of the underprivileged. In his home he breathed the vitality and creativity characteristic of an education based on tolerance and love, but tragedy loomed.
