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FILM - OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS - NOVEMBER 27TH.

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OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS The most successful Spanish film of all time at the box office, we in Sligo Spanish Society are pleased to present  Ocho Apellidos Vascos   - Eight Basque Surnames. A comedy in Spanish, with English subtitles, the story revolves around Rafa, from  Seville  in the south of  Spain , who is only interested in meeting women and living the good life. One day, everything changes, when he meets Amaia, a Basque girl from the north, and the first woman to resist his charms. Rafa, determined to conquer her, travels to her village in the Basque country in the north. There, ready to do what it takes to win Amaia, he even passes himself off as a real Basque in order to win the approval of his prospective father-in-law. The comedy and the plot of  Ocho Apellidos Vascos  revolve around the cultural differences between the different regions of  Spain , between AndalucĂ­a in the south, with its sun, flamenco, and fierce pride in its traditions, and the Basque Co