- Costaleros is the story of a group united for Easter but also for other deeper reasons. It is a part of the history of immigration in Catalonia. It tells the story of the 15+1 Brotherhood from l'Hospitalet, a story that was born in a neighborhood bar to become a massive event. The protagonists are working class people who relive the moment when they got on a train to Barcelona and became emigrants.
- During Holy Week in 1977, a group of men and women have drinks in their neighborhood bar while listening to the bugles and drums of a Sevillian procession on the radio. Moved by a mixture of nostalgia and joy, they have an unusual idea, to set up a procession with what they collect at the bar: a picture, four bottles, some candles and a table. Between four men they carry this Easter project and go out into the street. A thousand kilometers from Seville, in the Pubilla Cases neighborhood of l'Hospitalet, near Barcelona. What starts out as almost a joke turns into a massive procession over the years. "Costaleros" reveals some of the members of this brotherhood, the Brotherhood 15+1. Most of them were once emigrants who had to leave Andalusia to seek a better life. And now, as time goes by, they tell us about what they left behind and what they found when they arrived in Catalonia.
The camera go along with the protagonists in their daily lives while each of them remembers their particular train journey from the south. In parallel, we live an entire Holy Week, which most of them goes beyond a religious act: party, memory and class identity. It is part of their memory, what they lived in their villages as children before emigrating. A few decades later and from a 100% working-class neighborhood, they have reinterpreted Holy Week. They have taken away what they did not like: the priests and the andalusian gentlemen who dominated the processions during their childhood. That's the reason why they still preserve as a treasure, an object that reminds them who they are, the mason helmet that they reconverted into their first Roman helmet.
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