La Muerte de Mikel
Director: Imanol Uribe
Year: 1984
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Imanol Arias
La Muerte de Mikel (English: The Death of Mikel) is a 1984 Spanish film directed by Imanol Uribe, starring Imanol Arias. The film tells in flash back, the story of a gay member of ETA who died under mysterious circumstances.
The film opens at Mikel's funeral mass. A flashback spins out the circumstances of his life and death.
Mikel, a young pharmacist involved in Basque Nationalist politics is living in Lekeitio, a Basque coastal town. When his wife, Begoña, returns from a long trip abroad, he picks her up at the airport. Their marriage is unhappy; the relationship between the couple is tense. Begoña wants to resolve their problems, but Mikel is indifferent. In the encounter after the return, the couple visits Mikel’s domineering mother, Doña Maria Luisa, a widow who lives in the same small town. The relationship between mother and son is also fractured. Mikel and Begoña have an argument when she tells him that she has discussed their sexual problems with his mother. They are going to have supper to house of a pair of friends, Martín a doctor who has arrived at the town fleeing the Chilean dictatorship and Martin’s wife, Arantza. The calm of town is disrupted with the senseless
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