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Land and Freedom (1995)

Land and Freedom (1995)

Drama History War
Release Date: 1995, April 7
Directors: Ken Loach
Countries: Germany, Spain, United Kingdom
Production: Parallax Pictures, Messidor Films, Messidor Films, Road Movies, Road Movies, British Screen, British Screen
Cast: Ian Hart, Eoin McCarthy, Frédéric Pierrot, Francesc Orella, Sergio Garcia, Rosana Pastor, David Allen, Pep Molina, Mandy Walsh, Angela Clarke, Joan Manuel Gurillo, Francisco Franco

Overview:

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Keywords:

betrayal fascism working class spanish civil war (1936-39) spain franco regime (francoism) worker solidarity revolution anarchist