intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Guernica, the defense of Madrid, the International Brigades ...

It’s impossible to imagine Hollywood today making a blockbuster movie about a medieval Castilian ... “a way of legitimizing Franco’s regime internationally” and of “putting Spain on ...

During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his regime, if a leftist woman had a baby while imprisoned ...

The PNV (Basque Nationalist Party), the main figure in this struggle, made this film — a testimony of the Basque resistance to Franco's regime.