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- September, 1940. Walter Benjamin arrives in Portvendres with an US visa issued in Marseille through his friends T. Adorno and M. Horkheimer. He have to cross the Pyrenees border and travel through Spain to Lisbon, to embark to New York. He carries an important manuscript. Henny Gurland and his son Joseph goes with him in a long and tiring journey. They are guided by Lisa Fittko. When they arrive in Port Bou, the Francoist authorities prevent them from continuing their trip. They will be deported on the next day. Everything happens afterwards is confusing. Walter Benjamin dies in dark circumstances. After "El emisario" (2018), "Dirección única" is the second film of "The Fascism Trilogy" that will end with "Rock of Gibraltar"(2020).
- The film chronicles the last 3 years of Akhenaten -called "the heretic pharaoh"- and his wife Queen Nefertiti, their mysterious and convulse reign in the context of the profound political and theological reform they promoted.
- "Blavatsky" is the first feature film on life of Helena Petrovna von Hahn, called Madame Blavatsky, an extraordinary personality of her time, regardless of the way we decide to look at her philosophy. This is not a film which praises her work; nor does it defy and debunk what she stood for, in spite the fact that she was one of the most controversial figures of the nineteenth century. Operating within the confinements of the world of fiction, Blavatsky charters her indelible legacy and its contagious effect on thousands whom she has had a strong spiritual impression on. Furthermore, the film makes an attempt to capture the deep magical and symbolic reality by going beyond the appearance of things. It invites the audience to the explore the unchartered areas such as occultism, spiritual discourse, astral and transcendental visions. To the tutored eye or the average cinephile, Blavatsky could also appear as a hallucination in the late-romantic sensibility. Since this film is the final product of an arduous process of research and soul-searching answers for esoteric questions on theosophy, it is a must for those who crave to know more about the life and works of a titanic human being who enriched history through her contribution to Buddhist discourse.