Kargus

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| name = Kargus

| image = Kargus-783146398-large.jpg

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| director = Juan Miñón
Miguel Ángel Trujillo

| writer = Juan Miñón
Miguel Ángel Trujillo

| starring =Héctor Alterio
Laura Cepeda

| music = Pedro Luis Domingo

| cinematography = José Luis Martínez
Miguel Ángel Trujillo

| editing =

| producer =

| story =

| released ={{Film date|1981}}

| language = Spanish

}}

Kargus is a 1981 Spanish drama film written and directed by Juan Miñón and Miguel Ángel Trujillo, at their feature film debut.{{cite news|last1=José F. Beaumont|title="Kargus", una reflexión sobre los últimos 40 años de la historia de España|url=http://elpais.com/diario/1981/06/19/cultura/361749613_850215.html|accessdate=2 November 2015|work=El País|date=19 June 1981}}

The film was entered into the main competition at the 38th edition of the Venice Film Festival.Adriano Aprà, Giuseppe Ghigi, Patrizia Pistagnesi. Cinquant'anni di cinema a Venezia. La Biennale di Venezia, 1982. {{ISBN|8820802988}}.

== Plot ==

A series of vignettes that begin at the Civil War and end at the Spanish Economic Miracle

is interwoven with 2 separate abstractions

1. Seeking a Utopia in the Gilbert Islands
2. A possible escape from the Social order to El "otro lado"

In vignete 1 The train which is apparently going to Vizcaya? offers a

possible escape route (to France?)

In vignette 2 We see an escape from the Oppressive Social Services

that want the change a family (from being hunter gatherers) to fit back into the

state sponsored social order.

Vignette 3 Focuses on a schoolroom in the 1950s and suggests that one can

learn more from daydreaming than following the dry logic of the schoolmaster

Vignette 4 at a Rapid Driving School perhaps makes fun of a girl who only

looks at the inside of a vehicle and gets a rude awakening when she glimpse the

outside of the car

Vignete 5 deals with graffiti removal where the technicians have to think

long and loud about the political meanings to choose which graffiti they will remove and

which they will allow.