El lobo (English: The Wolf) is a 2004 film directed by Miguel Courtois. It stars Eduardo Noriega.
El Lobo is based on the life of Mikel Lejarza, an agent of the Spanish intelligence service in the 1970s. During the last stages of Franco's dictatorship between 1973 and 1975, Lejarza infiltrated ETA, a paramilitary group seeking independence for the Basque Country, and was responsible for the fall of one quarter of the terrorist activists of the organisation - including Special Forces members and some top-level figures of the group.
Lobo's operation destabilized the terrorist organization at a time when its actions were becoming a perfect validation for the most conservative arm of the Franco regime to take full powers and stop all democratic process in Spain.
The Lobo operation hindered the terrorists plans to escape from the prison where they were held and a campaign of blind attacks across the country.
Lobo was a man betrayed and ruined by the Spanish dictatorship secret services, who although at first hiring him to help them stop the ETA tried to get rid of him later on when he became less useful to them. Although this did not stop Lobo and he kept on in with mission and it led to the most successful mission ever held against ETA by the Spanish Government.
Because of his betrayal, ETA sentenced Lobo to death and covered the whole Basque country with search posters of Mikel Lejarza, hoping that their supporters would aid in the capture and destruction of 'the wolf.' As a result Mikel had to change his name and face and disappear without a trace. The memory of Lobo is so vivid to ETA that its members always carry around a bullet bearing his name to kill him if they ever meet or see him.
Awards and nominations: Won - Goya Awards: Best Editing (Guillermo S. Maldonado) and Best Special Effects: Nominated - Goya Awards: Best Actor (Eduardo Noriega), Best Production Supervision and Best Supporting Actress (Silvia Abascal); Spanish Actors Union: Performance in a Minor Role, Male (Santiago Ramos) and Supporting Performance, Female (Silvia Abascal)
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, José Coronado, Silvia Abascal, Patrick Bruel, Melanie Doutey, Santiago Ramos, Jorge Sanz, Fernando Cayo and Juan Fernández
Music: When a Soundtrack is already perfect, (as in this exceptional film, which includes 20th Century Boy by Barc Bolan and T. Rex, Solo Tu by Los Modulos, Santana's Samba Pa Ti by Luís Rabisco and Jordi Camp, Highwaystar by Deep Purple and others) you simply can't change it. So, I'm using the original music of the film, with emphasis on "The Partisan", originally "Song Of The French Partisan" by Leonard Cohen.
I also used the complete music in Euskara but since I don't know this language, I can't say its name.

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