Tales of a Bookseller

Synopsis

Barcelona, October 1998. In his trial, Pedro Varela Geiss, in a moving speech, claims his innocence, insisting that he is a mere bookseller and historian concerned with finding out the truth about the alleged atrocities committed during the Second World War.

April, 1988. A crowd, saluting in the nazi-fascist way, shouts the name of Adolf Hitler. Pedro Varela, the alleged bookseller and historian, stands center stage, encouraging the audience: gas chambers never existed; black people invade and contaminate our Europe; Hitler was a true democrat and Auschwitz... a great city.

Tales of a Bookseller - with humour and irony - exposes the twisted rational of and ideology based on ignorance and cynicism and also reminds us that it is still ever-present.

• Best Documentary Film, Festival de Creación Audiovisual de Navarra, 2000

Selected at

• Festival de Cine Judío de Barcelona, 2000
• Mostra Internazionale del Nuevo Cinema, Pesaro, 2000
• Festival Internacional de Vídeo e Novos Media, Vigo, 2000
• Festival Internacional de Films Resistance, Ariege, 2001
• Bideo Mostra, San Sebastián, 2001
• Docupolis, Festival Internacional Documental de Barcelona, 2001
• Unimovie Festival, Pescara, 2001
• Dokumentarfilm & Videofest in Kassel, 2001
• Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental, Lisboa, 2001
• Mostra de Curtmetrages de Vilafranca, 2001
  

And others…