Guernica (1951)

Guernica (1951)

Release Date: 1951, June 6
Directors: Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens
Countries: France
Production: Panthéon Productions

Overview:

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.

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