Mar adentro javier bardem biography

The film is based on the true story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro who fought a 30-year campaign to be allowed to end his life with dignity, after an accident left him paralysed from the neck down.

Sampedro's mind was fully functional after the accident and he was frustrated at the thought of being dependent on his family for the rest of his life.

Such was his paralysis that he was not able to kill himself, so he battled through the courts for the right to die.

The case even reached the European courts but his pleas were ignored.

But in 1998, aged 55, Sampedro mysteriously died surrounded by a group of his closest friends. No-one knew who had administered the final poison.

Sampedro's case became a cause celebre in Spain where discussions