''The Realm'' ( es, El reino, links=no, also known as ''The Candidate'') is a 2018 Spanish-French

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directed by

Rodrigo Sorogoyen Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo (born 16 September 1981) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for '' The Realm''. He was previously nominated for the Goya ...

. At the

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, the film won seven awards, including Best Director, Best Actor ( Antonio de la Torre), and Best Original Screenplay.

Plot

Without higher education, Manuel has worked his way up in local politics to the point where he may be the next head of the regional council. As Spain has been developing rapidly, attracting foreign investors and substantial funds from the European Union, local politicians have been systematically enriching themselves, some buying ostentatious yachts while others hide their cash in Andorra. The party bosses in Madrid decide that the corruption in the region must be rooted out before the party is discredited nationally. After refusing to disappear abroad quietly, Manuel is made one of the fall guys, arrested and charged. On bail awaiting trial, he starts a personal campaign to expose the big names who are still free and promises Amaia, a leading TV journalist, that he will get her evidence on the real criminals. Learning that one of the kingpins is not at his villa in Andorra, he goes there at night and persuades the man's daughter to let him in, saying he has to collect vital documents for her father. Finding four handwritten notebooks that mention everybody in the racket, himself included, he races back towards Madrid in the dark. Shadowed by a vehicle without lights that follows his taillights, he also switches off his lights off and then crashes, ending upside down in a field. When the shadower comes to look for him, he knocks him out and, taking the man's keys, drives his assailant's car on to Madrid. Amaia puts him straight on to her live show, with his notebooks, but has no intention of accusing anybody without adequate proof or of prejudicing future trials. Instead of exploring his allegations, she attacks him for being a self-seeking cog in a vicious machine who is now trying to save his skin by informing on others. His crusade for the truth collapsing, for once he is left speechless.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Tornasol, Trianera PC AIE, Atresmedia Cine and Bowfinger alongside Le Pacte and Mondex & Cie with the participation of

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and

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. Shooting primarily took place in

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Release

It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the

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. Distributed by Warner Bros, it was theatrically released in Spain on 28 September 2018.

Awards and nominations

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References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Realm, The 2018 films 2018 thriller films Spanish thriller films 2010s Spanish-language films Warner Bros. films Films about politicians 2010s political thriller films Spanish political thriller films Films shot in Valencia Tornasol Films films Atresmedia Cine films Bowfinger International Pictures films 2010s Spanish films