Joan Camp Fontcuberta and Magda Gregori
La victòria de Derbi
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La victòria de Derbi

La victòria de Derbi

Joan Camp Fontcuberta and Magda Gregori

2022
40 min.
Spain
Catalan and Spanish
Without subtitles

The emotional soundtrack of generations of Catalans around the legendary Derbi motorbikes and bicycles

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Direction
Joan Camp Fontcuberta and Magda Gregori
Production
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Synopsis

This is where the memory of a country is built. A collective and swift memory. The Derbi factory is demolished, but the bicycles, the mopeds, the motorbikes of memory haunt us all. Derbis are the economic, social and sporting thermometer of the post-war period, the sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties... A work tool for workers, a means of transport for families, sentimental education and freedom for teenagers. In 2001, the Italian company Piaggio buys the brand, takes over the production and everything else. The factory begins the crumbling path that leads to its collapse in 2021. But motorbikes continue to make memories. This podcast is a collection of memories: the story of Martorelles, the town where Derbi was based, but also that of Catalonia and the world going into the future on two wheels.

About the direction
Joan Camp Fontcuberta

Joan Camp Fontcuberta

Filmmaker

Joan Camp and Fontcuberta (Granollers, 1978). Creator and publisher of digital media such as La Mira...

Magda Gregori

Magda Gregori

Filmmaker

Vilamajor de Àger (la Noguera). Journalist and political scientist. Director of LA MIRA. She also co...