Anxo returns to his home village in the Galician countryside. There, he is greeted with concern by the victorious and the defeated, who see in him the danger of diving back into their silenced memories.
Casts Misha Bies Golas, Nuria Lestegás, M. Pozas Vázquez, Manuel Pumares, Celsa Araujo, Suso Meilan, Verónica Quintana
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Songs for After a War
The Spirit of the Beehive
Man in Hiding
Carmen and the Reds
The Grass Dwellers
Los ojos perdidos
The Man Who Was There
La fossa
La Era
The 13 Roses
Extranjeros de sí mismos
For Whom the Bell Tolls
You're My Hero
Paper Birds
Carol's Journey
La plaça del Diamant
Black Bread
Estos muros
Butterfly
Paseo
SIMILAR MOVIES
Songs for After a War
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1976
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 Spirit of the Beehive
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1973
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.Man in Hiding
IMDB 4.8 | Oct , 1971
Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.Carmen and the Reds
IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 1939
Javier Navarro, a Falangist, is ordered to infiltrate Republican Madrid to deliver a message to a member of the Fifth Column.The Grass Dwellers
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.Los ojos perdidos
IMDB 0 | Feb , 1966
The Man Who Was There
IMDB 6 | May , 2013
The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.La fossa
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2014
La Era
IMDB 2 | Dec , 2022
The 13 Roses
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2007
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.Extranjeros de sí mismos
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2000
For Whom the Bell Tolls
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1943
Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.You're My Hero
IMDB 5.2 | May , 2003
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. But he soon learns it's all about survival. Like Ramon, Spain is in transition (President Francisco Franco is about to die); it's a time of social upheaval marked by change, illusion and struggle.Paper Birds
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2010
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.Carol's Journey
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 2002
Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.La plaça del Diamant
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1982
Colometa is an average housewife with two children to care for in the late 1930's, as the Spanish Civil War is starting and her husband goes off to fight. She had been an ordinary woman working in a shop when she met the lively carpenter who married her, and their life together was without major problems. But now she is forced to raise her children under straitened circumstances, and after her husband dies, her life undergoes another major change as she marries for the second time. Underneath Colometa's acquiescent, forebearing exterior must lie just a few discontents, a few unrealized dreams - but they never surface as she blithely moves from one episode in her life to another.Black Bread
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2010
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.Estos muros
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2021
In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.Butterfly
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 1999
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.Paseo
IMDB 7.5 | Nov , 2007