Set in 1930s Europe, the film focuses on personal choice in a times of war when personal and political convictions go beyond bounds, and compels each individual to take a position. Gilda is a 20 years old photographer who shares an apartment in Paris with Mia, Spanish model and Spanish model and nurse, and Guy, an idealist Irish teacher who used to be her lover. The three spend most of their days entertaining themselves, but with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mia and Guy chose to move to Spain and assist the war against Franco’s Fascism. Gilda, on the other hand, refuses to renounce her hedonist...
Through eyewitnesses testimonies, archival photos and drawings this documentary tells of the life of Spanish exiles in Gurs, a refugee camp of Pyrenees-Atlantic, under the regime of Vichy. The Gurs camp was one of the first and largest camps established in pre-war France. Originally it served as a detention camp for political refugees and members of the International Brigade fleeing Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Between June 1940 and August 1944, the Vichy regime interned in Gurs also French Communists and Jewish deportees from southwest Germany and Austria. Conditions in the Gurs camp were very...
Second of a series of five documentaries. It studies in depth one of the aspects treated in the first generic video that gives title to the series. In this one and in his guide of comprehension, there is tackled the exodus of the Spanish republicans towards France after the fall of the Catalan front, the attitude of the French public opinion before this presence and the measurements that the French government enabled to receive them. The temporary frame covers the period that goes from February until September, 1939. The luck that these Spanish covered during the Second World War will be studied in a third...
Based on eye testimonies and archival footages, this documentary which was broadcast on the Catalonian TV program "30 Minuets" on 7.3.04, filmmakers Montse Armengou and Ricard Belis reveal the story of 927 "Red" Spaniards who sought refuge in France after the Spanish Civil War but ended up getting sent by train to a Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp in Austria where 90 percent of the men and teenage boys died. Witnesses: Ramiro Santiesteban, José Alcubierre, Jesús Ramos, Pablo Escribano.
סרט אנימציה. סיפורו האמיתי של ג׳וזפ ברטולי, אמן יוצא דופן שלחם נגד פרנקו במלחמת האזרחים בספרד. פברואר 1939, רפובליקנים ספרדים נמלטים לצרפת הדיקטטורה של פרנקו. ממשלת צרפת הקימה מחנות מעצר וכלאה את הפליטים בתנאי היגיינה ירודים ללא גישה למים ומזון. באחד מהמחנות הללו, מבעד לגדר התיל, מתפתחת חברות בין שני גברים. האחד חייל המשגיח על האסירים והשני ג׳וספ ברטולי, מאייר שנלחם נגד משטר פרנקו.
A feature film. In 1934 Diego Padilla wins the Spanish Championship of Chess and meets a French journalist, Marianne Latour, and they fall in love. At the end of the Civil War, Marianne convinces Diego to live in France with their daughter, where shortly afterwards Diego will be accused of spying by the Nazis and imprisoned in an SS prison. In prison, Diego will try to survive in a hostile environment thanks to Colonel Maier's passion for chess.