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.
Casts Francisco Franco, Philippe Pétain, Imperio Argentina, Lola Flores, José Isbert, Adolf Hitler, Manuel Azaña, Camilo José Cela, Winston Churchill, Gary Cooper
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
¡Al fútbol!
Good evening, we're from Barcelona
The Saragossa Manuscript
The Anarchist's Wife
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
City of the Dead
Caudillo
Endless Night
Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow
In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain
Seeing Spain
Santa Fiesta
Disney: Through the Looking Glass
Little Sahara
Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda
The Royal Exchange
Amour de vivre
Yo soy Arturo Fernández
SIMILAR MOVIES
¡Al fútbol!
IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 1975
Any given Sunday of 1974 in Spain, soccer games in several stadiums, the sarcastic voice of commentators, the inevitable presence of advertising. Goal! The victors and the defeated.Good evening, we're from Barcelona
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2023
Film made by activists who lived for a month in the Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.The Saragossa Manuscript
IMDB 7.8 | Feb , 1966
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.The Anarchist's Wife
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 2008
Manuela 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.The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
IMDB 5 | Jan , 2024
Director Carrie Cracknell makes her Met debut, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day, in a contemporary American industrial town.City of the Dead
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 2019
The human being feels generally as fascinated as fearful before death and the inevitable fact of dying. Workers at the cemetery of Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, face this harsh reality every day, so they have found a way to deal with it.Caudillo
IMDB 7.6 | Oct , 1977
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.Endless Night
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 2019
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.Behind Natacha Rambova's Shadow
IMDB 5 | Jul , 2019
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy, who reincarnated herself countless times: false Russian dancer, silent film actress, scenographer and costume designer, writer, spiritist, Egyptologist, indefatigable traveler, mysterious and curious; an amazing 20th century woman who created the myth of Rudolph Valentino.In Battle Against the Enemy of the World: German Volunteers in Spain
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1939
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.Seeing Spain
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1953
This Traveltalk series short looks at four of Spain's most famous cities, Granada, Seville, Toledo, and Madrid, with an emphasis on the Moors and their influence on the country.Santa Fiesta
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2016
SINOPSIS / SYNOPSIS Every year in Spain, some 16,000 Fiestas are organized, during which animals are used. Honoring the Holy Virgin and the Patron Saints, and with the blessing of religious and political authorities, entire towns -including children- are involved in celebrations of unbelievable cruelty. 60,000 animals are hence abused each year during these “Fiestas of Blood”.Disney: Through the Looking Glass
IMDB 10 | Jan , 2010
Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about the alleged Spanish origin of the American cartoonist Walt Disney, making the same journey that his supposed mother made to give him up for adoption in Chicago. A journey that begins in Mojácar, Almería, Spain, and ends in New York. An exciting adventure, like Alicia's through the looking glass, to discover what is truth and what is not, with an unexpected result.Little Sahara
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2023
Those who do not know the Sahara think there is only sand in the desert. But in the desert there are children who play and draw and make movies, and who would like to not have to think about the war. In the desert there's a European colony, an occupied country called Western Sahara, where there are thousands of Sahrawi refugees living a hard life in exile. "Little Sahara" tells their story, the story of a supportive, resilient people who try to thrive and grow in the Hamada, where everything has a hard time growing.Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell
IMDB 5 | Jan , 2000
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.Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 1962
Las Hurdes, país de leyenda
IMDB 4 | Jan , 1922
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in the region of Extremadura, in 1922.The Royal Exchange
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2017
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…Amour de vivre
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2010
An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.Yo soy Arturo Fernández
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2019
A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest interviews, not previously broadcast, and the words of those who knew him thorough decades of charming and good performance on stage, his true home, as well as in cinema and television.