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The Tunnel of the Bellows

2025 · 30 min

A warm, unhurried half-hour of talking heads and squeezebox tunes tracing how a borrowed instrument became a people's voice.

Genres
Documentary
Overview
A documentary film about the origins of the Basque trikitixa. It reflects how the small accordion brought by one of the Italian workers who came to build the Madrid-Paris railway tunnels in 1859, starting from Zumarraga, has become a symbol of contemporary Basque music.
How it feels
Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About
Music, identity, immigration, work
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
Note
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance1
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

Cast

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Gorka Hermosa, Iñaki Pinedo
Written by
Gorka Hermosa, Iñaki Pinedo
Starring
Juan Bautista Busca, Bernardo Atxaga, Toti Martínez de Lezea, Kepa Junkera, Fermin Muguruza, Garikoitz Mendizábal
Cinematography
Hugo Herrera, Marcos Fernández Aldaco
Runtime
30 min
Country
Spain
Languages
Basque, Spanish

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