1937-01-25
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Pedro Urraca, Spanish policeman and Gestapo agent led the persecution of numerous Spanish Republican loyalists exiled in France during the Nazi occupation. The portrait of a sinister character through the testimony of his granddaughter.
Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presumed organized extermination that took place during the coup, the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing crimes against humanity. The film is also a sore reminder of an issue that still stands today: the clear-cut accountability held by Germany, Italy, and Portugal. The film accomplishes to give both sides a voice - those against whom the killing has been directed; and the side of the perpetrators.
A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisoner in the SS Photographic Service, hiding, between 1943 and 1945, around 20,000 negatives that later will be presented as evidence during several trials conducted against Nazi war criminals after World War II.
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.
La doble vida del faquir (The magicians) returns to the scene of a school in the Catalan town of Sant Julià de Vilatorta where, in 1937, in the midst of civil war, a film-maker in hiding and a group of orphaned children dressed up as sultans and explorers shot an exotic adventure film. The films protagonists relive those childhood days when they were able to switch their school smocks for oriental turbans, while reality imposed its own fancy dress ball with military uniforms and priests dressed in civilian garb.
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.
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.
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.
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
The Colegio de Arquitectos de Catalunya commissioned Pere Portabella to make this film for the Joan Miró retrospective exhibit in 1969. There were heated discussions on whether it would be prudent to screen the film during the exhibit. Portabella took the following stance: "either both films are screened or they don't screen any" and, finally, both Miro l'Altre and Aidez l'Espagne were shown. The film was made by combining newsreels and film material from the Spanish Civil War with prints by Miró from the series "Barcelona" (1939-1944). The film ends with the painter's "pochoir" known as Aidez l'Espagne.