Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.
Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.
2023-11-24
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Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
"The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.
Hans, a German director, is in Madrid to film a television production about the capital and the Civil War, 50 years after it occurred. Accompanied by Lucía, his editor, and Goyo, his cinematographer, he films shots of the modern city, searching for spaces and people related to its past. At the same time, he views materials related to the past. In this search, Hans questions the point of his project, and disagrees with his producers until he discovers a project that he is passionate about.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)
Chelsea Bledsoe and her husband Graig throw a surprise intervention for her old high school boyfriend, Henry, with a mismatched group of acquaintances from back in the day to fill out the guest list.
Nazi propaganda film about the Condor Legion, a unit of German "volunteers" who fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of eventual dictator Francisco Franco against the elected government of Spain.
In 1936, after the coup d'état perpetrated by Franco against democratic Spain and the subsequent dictatorship that followed a bloody Civil War, women suffered physical, sexual, economic, educational and political violence, leading to the largest theft of babies in the world. History of recent Europe. 'Las vencidas y no derrotadas' is a documentary with the testimonies of these women, whose faces bear the mark left by unhealed wounds. Its protagonists tell us about real events, reliving events that were milestones in their families, towns and cities, supported by graphic documentation of family and personal memories, as well as images and audios from historical archives.
This film reveals testimonies, reflections and memories from the experience of many Aragonese who, after the Republican defeat in the civil war, had to cross the Atlantic in search of survival.
A documentary about the ghosts of Joan Perucho, which wants to be an immersive experience in the author's universe, in his literature, in his landscapes, his fears and obsessions, his experiences, war, cinema, vampires, the fantasy genre and pop culture.
In 1936, the war broke out in Spain and in 1937 the front was maintained for many months around Angiozar and Elgeta. It has often been talked about what men experienced, but women have also experienced the war. Through this documentary, their bravery and courage, both at the front and in resistance away from the front, has been highlighted and recalled.
The documentary 'Jaén, Viento del Pueblo' places the viewer in the year 1936 and takes them to the present day, analyzing and pivoting around the processes of exhumation of the graves in the province of Jaén, the stories of relatives and experts
The life of Frank Ryan (1902- 1944) who was an Irish radical, International Brigade volunteer in Spain, and Nazi collaborator in Berlin.
The son of an anarchist republican who went into exile in Mexico in 1941 brings back to Spain the suitcase with which his father left Spain. Through his testimonies we will discover the exciting story of his father, unknown until today in Spain.
Brief scenes of death related material: mortuaries, accidents and police work are filmed by TV crews and home video cameras. Some of it is most likely fake, some not as much.
The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily on serial killers, with lengthy reenactments of police investigations of bodies being found in dumpsters, and a staged courtroom sequence.