The Spanish Earth

O resplandor das Atochas

January 2007 •Galician

The memory of a defeat, a barbarism: the destruction at the dawn of the civil war of people who fought for freedom, a group of anarchists from A Coruña located in the Atochas area. Through valuable witnesses and historical images a reconstruction of a metaphorical episode in the history of the country. This projection is made in collaboration with its author and the Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory.

The Ponzán Network

October 2022 •Spanish

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.

The Moroccan Labyrinth

November 2007 •Spanish

Heroic Spain

August 1938 •Spanish

Documentary produced by Falange and edited in Berlin, in response to the international success of the Republican production "Spain 1936" (Le Chanois, 1937).

Spanish A.B.C.

May 1938 •English

A short film on Republican efforts to improve education standards during the Spanish Civil War.

¿Por qué morir en Madrid?

May 1966 •Spanish

Fallas 37: el arte en guerra

March 2013 •Spanish

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Second Republic moves to Valencia. In this situation, several Valencian artists and intellectuals decide to build four fallas — satirical plasterboard sculptures created to be burnt — to mock fascism.

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell

January 2000 •Spanish

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.

Spain

January 1939 •Russian

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war.

Agente Sicre, el amigo americano

June 2014 •Spanish

Defenders Of The Faith (The Spanish Civil War In Colour)

January 1938 •Spanish

Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 3: la toma de Siétamo

October 1936 •Spanish

The Taking of Siétamo is a report on the activity of the FAI (Durruti) Aguiluchos column on the Aragon front in August 1936 and focuses on the conquest of the town of Siétamo.

Caleta Palace

November 2023 •Spanish

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.

The Silence of Others

January 2019 •Spanish

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice

October 2021 •Spanish

The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected with the common people while maintaining a dangerous pulse with the powerful.

Picassos Friseur

October 2001 •German

In 1948 Pablo Picasso met the hairdresser Eugenio Arias. Both were linked by the fate of emigration. If Picasso initially only had his hair cut by Arias, a deep friendship soon developed.

The Aguiluchos of the FAI in the Land of Aragón Report 1: Stamps of the antifascist revolution

October 1936 •Spanish

This documentary is the first of a series that dedicated 4 issues to the activity of the Durruti column in Aragon.

Vivir de pie. Las guerras de Cipriano Mera

September 2009 •Spanish

Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra

October 2009 •Spanish

July, 1936. The terrible Spanish Civil War begins. When the streets are taken by the working class, the social revolution begins as well. The public shows are socialized, a model of production and exhibition of films, never seen before in the history of cinema, is created, where the workers are the owners and managers of the industry, through the unions.

The Mexican Suitcase

November 2011 •Spanish

The story of the recovery of the negatives of thousands of photos taken by three photographers during the Spanish Civil War that were found seventy years later in a suitcase, inside a closet in Mexico City.