Ramon Agirre

Ramon Agirre

Birth : 1954-01-01, Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Euskadi, Spain

History

Ramon Agirre Lasarte is an actor, comedian, writer and Spanish painter who has developed the vast majority of his work in his mother tongue, Basque. However, he has also participated in different international productions in other languages. He was born in the neighborhood of Amara, Donosti-San Sebastián. Although he studied architecture at the University of Valladolid and his hometown, after studying acting at the School of Dramatic Art of the Basque Government his working life has been linked to the field of performance since 1983. Among the most recognized films in which he has participated are Handia, winner of ten Goya Awards in 2018 and the San Sebastian International Film Festival Award, as well as others such as Amour, a film directed by Michael Haneke who was awarded the Palm gold at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, and the hit The Day of the Beast.

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Ramon Agirre
Ramon Agirre

Movies

Irati
Virila
Western Pyrenees, year 778. When his land is threatened by the ruthless armies of the Frankish emperor, a Basque warlord asks for help from his ancestral gods.
Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City
Garrido Stocker
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.
Bye Bye Mr. Etxebeste!
Patrizio
Patrizio Etxebeste decides to resign from the office of mayor for health problems, but few know the real reason: the recent corruption scandals uncovered in nearby towns lead him to believe that his may be the next head to roll. Who better to take up the reins and maintain the control than Mª Luisa, his faithful wife? But it won’t all be quite as simple as it once might have been. His decorative wife decides not to be quite so decorative and starts taking action.
Black Is Beltza
Xebero (voice)
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.
The Deer
Martín
Khalil is a young man torn from his roots who lives on the edge of town, where the industrial estates merge into the river and the marshes. Khalil gets by as best he can and spends his time with an old poacher, who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn't spoken to in years. On the banks of the marshes, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.
Asesinato en la Universidad
Santiago Montemayor
In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who spreads humanist ideas, considered heretical, among his more inquisitive students, a clandestine group of four led by the brilliant novice Luis de León, mysteriously dies in unspeakable circumstances. In the present day, the historian Lara Cabanes is hired to find out if the monk was murdered, as is suspected and she is told, but the task will not be easy to achieve.
Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil
Alfredo
Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.
Giant
Antonio
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
Operation Golden Shell
Getaway Plan
Gero
A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.
Igelak (Frogs)
Lawyer
Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.
Kalebegiak
Nikanor
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
Julieta
Goalkeeper
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Palm Trees in the Snow
Father Rafael
Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
Txarriboda
Alaba zintzoa
Andoni
Wounded
Padre de Ana
The first work from Fernando Franco revolves around Ana, a 30 year old ambulance driver. Though good at her job, Ana has problems relating in her personal life. She doesn't know it, but she suffers from a condition known by psychiatrists as Borderline Personality Disorder. The situation pushes her to outbreaks of self-destructive behaviour, alcohol abuse and self-harm. Ana is incapable of getting what she wants most: to be happy.
Arconada
Jon wants to be Arconada, the mythical goalkeeper of Real Sociedad, but is the substitute goalkeeper of the school soccer team.
Baztan
A film crew travels to the Valley of Baztan to make a film about certain events that occurred in the seventeenth century is the history of discrimination suffered by so-called "agotes", people who were forced to live apart from the rest almost to our days.
Amour
Concierge's husband
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
[REC]³ Genesis
Danilo
A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.
Deus et Machina
Deus
The employee comes to the factory every day. He is the only person who is qualified to do his particular job. It is precise, mundane, and repetitive work. Every morning he goes through the same drill, starting up each machine. Today, though, he has made a decision...
Zeinek gehiago iraun
Doctor (voice)
A group of children are playing on the train tracks, challenging each other to see who stays longer on the tracks before the train comes. Ander stays a bit longer than what he should have and, grazed by the train, he was thrown out of the tracks, leaving him with a number of important physical and neurological injuries, which will disrupt his future and his family's, turning their lives into the same harsh and dramatic 'ZEINEK GEHIAGO IRAUN' game that changed them for good.
The Stone
Antxon
Arriya (La piedra) is a look at our time, our people ... a nod to hope from this stuck in the past, on the bus, in a heavy stone behind from the start of memory. Maria runs after Peru through the streets of the village with the beret that has lost on the road. The family of Peru and Mary seal a clash, a dispute, which accounts, on a journey of no return, the future of the village and its inhabitants. A mule, a horse ... And a stone, the stone
Mystikal
Ambrosius
In a last era, in an imaginary world dominated by shadows, three get conquer evil wizards and place in three boxes of Pandora. Every magician must save their life and protect each of the boxes containing: war, plague and famine. If the ghosts manage to break free, will open the gates of hell.
Sukalde kontuak
The End of the Night
After the death of the last survivor of a multiple murder, which remained in a coma, a journalist is asked to make an infographic about the case. Her personal involvement with the event will give clues to unexpected connections that shed new research data.
Aupa Etxebeste!
Patrizio Etxebeste
The same day that the Etxebeste Family are leaving for their holidays, they lost all their money. They have to keep up appearances in front of the residents, so they will hide them selves at home. During their stay at home the Etxebestes will throw each other miserys and lies but later they will enjoy the best holidays in their life.
King of the Farm
Conductor
In a distant galaxy, Neuronia controls the minds of the inhabitants until one of them escapes with the sphere.
Tercero B
A woman entrusts her belongings to a stranger while she goes into the sea to take a swim. But when she comes out again, the stranger has disappeared, taking everything with him, including the keys to her house.
Mi hijo Arturo
Arturo is obsessed with cleanliness and order. This trait interferes with his normal life and raises problems with those around him, specially with his mother and bride. A doctor suggests he should make a treatment with gamma rays, in his private practice.
La hora de los valientes
Portero
After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.
Suerte
Mendigorría
Menos que cero
Periodista
Zapico
The Day of the Beast
Tipo Coche
The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible, a death metal salesman from Carabanchel, and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult. These go on a literal "trip" through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.
Amor en off
Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest
Jabonero
Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.
Ander eta Yul
Two former seminarians meet by chance in adulthood: one has become a dealer, the other a terrorist.
To the Four Winds
A poet and journalist must take under the role of a Basque army commander during the siege of the Basque Count
Ehun metro
It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.
El maestro que prometió el mar
Based on the story of Antoni Benaiges, a teacher who in 1935 is assigned to a small public school. Little by little, and thanks to a revolutionary teaching methodology, he will begin to transform the lives of his students, but also that of the town.