After participating at the Berlinale with his previous project One Year, One Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isaki Lacuesta
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The film is co-directed with Pol Rodríguez, who made his feature film debut with Quatretondeta [+leggi anche:
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With a screenplay written by Lacuesta himself and Fernando Navarro (Verónica [+leggi anche:
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Isaki Lacuesta has stated that "its main characters are played by real musicians from Granada from a generation after Los Planetas and some of them were related to the original band. The music scenes were performed live on set. The film doesn’t aim to be an accurate historical chronicle, but an almost fantastic overview. We didn't want to make a film about Los Planetas but about their legend, as it might be told a hundred years from now."

Daniel Ibáñez (an actor seen in The Laws of the Border [+leggi anche:
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Saturn Return is produced by the Spanish companies La Terraza Films, Ikiru Films, Áralan Films, Bteam Prods, Sideral Films, Los Ilusos Films and Toxicosmos AIE in collaboration with the French company Capricci Films. It includes the participation of RTVE, Canal Sur and Movistar Plus+, and is supported by the Junta de Andalucía, the Community of Madrid and Madrid City Council, plus funding from the ICAA. Its international sales are managed by Latido Films and it will be distributed in Spain by BTeam Pictures.