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Screenplay by SEBASTIAN JAPRISOT...
...OCCASION last year, an American friend travelling with me inadvertently wandered into a side street in a Basque village just south of San Sebastian in Northern Spain. He found himself thrown against the side of a building with a machine-gun pointed at his throat by a member of the civil guard. Prior to this visit, Fascism was, for me, a storybook concept, a photograph of Hitler...
...without charges, and isolated incidents of violence are contributing to a growing desire to resist the national government, particularly among the young. All young men in their twenties are either serving mandatory military service, in the university or in prison. It is estimated that in the jails of San Sebastian alone there are some 800 Basques imprisoned on suspicion of being sympathetic with separatist organizations, and many have never had charges brought against them. In the single month of May, 1975, 3300 people were arrested in the provinces of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaya alone...
...organization has not only spearheaded resistance to what Basques call "Hispanicization," but also won a deserved international reputation as the most violent and daring Spanish group opposing Francisco Franco's regime. Six E.T.A. terrorists were sentenced to death in 1970 for kidnaping a West German consul in San Sebastian, but were reprieved at the last moment...
...many readers of The Ginger Man, James Patrick Donleavy's first and best novel, can somehow imagine its savagely baleful young anti-hero Sebastian Dangerfield being resurrected a quarter of a century afterward and sitting down to compose an advice book for late 20th century man, they should have a rough idea of The Unexpurgated Code. It might well be subtitled I'm Not O.K., You're Not O.K. A collection of bilious and often funny rules for living, the book qualifies as philosophy according to Donleavy's own definition: thoughts generated while confronting "wind, flood...