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Promotional poster of the film Handia

The recent release of the Basque film with this title, directed by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, and starring, among others, Eneko Sagardoy as the Giant from Altzo, gives a nearly forgotten story a place in the limelight. What little has been said and written about his life comes from the same scarce sources, largely Serapio Múgica and Higinio Gandarias. The writer and Basque folklorist Iztueta, a contemporary of theirs, says he was known as the ‘Basque Giant’. (more…)