The Giant (2017) on Netflix
Injured in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to the farm in Altzo to find his younger brother Joaquín grown into a giant. He plans to exhibit the tallest man on Earth.
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- Netflix3.4/5
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- Rotten Tomatoes70%
Plot summary
Martin Eleizegi is conscripted into the First Carlist War against his will. A wound costs him the use of his right arm, and he goes back to the small family farm in Altzo, in the Basque Country. There he finds that his younger brother, Joaquín, has become a giant. Martin dreams of emigrating to America, and he sees a way to pay for it: crowds will pay to look at the tallest man on Earth. The brothers tour Europe together. Joaquín grows uneasy at being put on display, measuring himself each night and finding that he is still getting taller, while Martin studies Spanish and buys modern clothes in the hope of passing as a man of the world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Giant (2017)
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- Martin Eleizegi's story is drawn from the real Miguel Joaquín Eleicegui (1818–1861), a Basque man who suffered from gigantism and was known as the "Giant from Altzo".
SPOILER
Miguel Joaquín Eleicegui's body, long believed sold or stolen, was located three years after the film's release, when a Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi team exhumed his bones in the Altzo cemetery.
