Tasio

Tasio is a charcoal burner in rural Navarre. The film follows his life from childhood into old age: learning the work of the forest from his father, poaching, marrying, watching his daughter grow. People leave the village and life changes; Tasio never once considers leaving the mountain. This is Montxo Armendáriz's first feature and became one of the most talked-about Spanish films of the eighties. The telling neither prettifies rural life nor asks you to pity it. The subject is a choice: Tasio goes on living the life he knows deliberately, not because he was left behind. Most of the cast are people from the region. Images of the country give the film its rhythm.