Bucarest is a documentary about memory. It follows the personal search of Albert, a journalist born in exile in 1962, to recover his own roots, framed by a double exile. His father, the Spanish politician Jordi Solé Tura, who would become a key figure of the Spanish Transition, was forced into exile for his anti-Franco activism in the late 1950s. Now, after a life full of compelling political and personal experiences, Jordi has begun a new inner exile, this time with no possibility of return: fighting Alzheimer’s. His memory fades day by day. This documentary sets out to recover the memories of some unusual lives, mixing historical figures such as Santiago Carrillo, Jorge Semprún, Felipe González, Manuel Fraga and Jordi Pujol with little-known episodes of the struggle against Franco and of the Cold War. For Albert, many of these experiences are the blurred memories of a child. He will travel from one exile to the other, trying to piece together his family’s memory and his own.
