Movies and TvShows featuring "political-repression-in-spain" theme.

Que mi nombre no se borre de la historia (2006) is a documentary that explores the impact of the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent Francoist regime on the people of Spain. The film delves into the historical memory of the war, the trauma of exile, and the political repression faced by those who resisted fascism. Through personal testimonies and archival footage, the documentary sheds light on this dark chapter in Spanish history.

Pico Reja: The Truth Buried Beneath is a powerful documentary that delves deep into the horrifying events of the Pico Reja massacre during the Spanish Civil War. Through interviews with survivors, archival footage, and expert analysis, the film uncovers the brutal truth behind this tragic event and explores its lasting impact on Spanish society. The documentary sheds light on the historical memory and political repression in Spain during that time, highlighting the struggle for justice and the fight against fascism.

Miguel Nunez knew the end was near. After a lifetime chasing utopias, gave his last bout, worthy of death, with the same revolutionary fervor with which he faced the Franco regime and Central American dictatorships. This is the story of a man who spent fourteen years in Franco's jails, was sentenced to death, tortured and risked his life repeatedly by his dreams of universal social justice. Coherent, lucid and sarcastic to the last breath, Miguel organized and controlled every detail of your life away.

An audiovisual chronicle of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia. Memorias Rotas centers on a group of republican fighters leaded by Commander José Moreno. The group disappears as they fail trying to escape by sea in the border between Galicia and Asturias and nobody ever knows about them.

During the Franco regime, the prisons are filled with thousands of people with artistic ideals.

Part of the historical revision of the battle of Brunete, part of the chronicle of the fieldwork carried out by a group of students next to the director, David Varela! signs a polyhedral portrait composed from different sources (current testimonies, written memoirs of the combatants, photos, maps, comments by scholars) that overlap the contemporary landscape of forests, groves, crops, bunkers and ruined buildings. Remains of shipwrecks that link a journey of more than 80 years through which, through the experience of young people, they become aware of the gap opened in our historical memory. FICX 2021

During the 30s, the young Catalan teacher Antoni Benaiges takes office at a rural school in northern Spain. Antoni has a simple project: he wants to teach his pupils to write and to be free through the use of the printing press. But his dream ends very soon. An individual and collective story in memory of the victims of the Franco's repression.

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.

Documentary that recovers the memory of the neighbors who were victims of Franco's repression in the Tiétar Valley and the Sierra de San Vicente, in the province of Toledo, and surrounding towns. Many of them are listed as missing: they were made to disappear at dawn and their families never saw them again.

The film, which shows the Battle of the Ebro and the last days of the Spanish Civil War, is an unpublished story by Patricio Azcárate (London, 1920- Alicante, 2018), son of the ambassador of the Second Republic in London, Pablo de Azcárate. Patricio Azcárate participated as a volunteer in the Ebro where, due to his knowledge of languages, he was assigned to the General Staff and served as a translator with the brigade members.

The documentary ‘Les mamàs Belgues’ directed by Sven Tuytens is the story of 21 young women from Belgium who volunteered in 1937 to work as nurses in a Valencian military hospital, looking after republican soldiers.

The military uprising of 1936 tried to eradicate all traces of the social transformation that had brought the Republic. There were villages like Guímara, in the Valley of Fornela (León), whose almost unanimous support to the Republic supposed a hard and systematic repression. This isolated village, of about 85 neighbors, suffered one of the most painful forms of punishment: deportation of adults to concentration camps, separating them from their minor children. In this documentary it is told the chronicle of this terrible repression that sought to subdue and subjugate the population through fear, trying to destroy family ties, solidarity networks between the people and personal and collective subsistence economy. The memory of lullabies from their mothers was the echo that reached their children from the forced exile who lived their elders.