Songs for After a War
1976 · 1h 41m · N/A
Documentary, History, Music
Directed by
Basilio Martín Patino
Overview
A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
Director and cast
- Basilio Martín Patino Director
- Francisco Franco as Self (archive footage)
- Philippe Pétain as Self (archive footage)
- Imperio Argentina as Self (archive footage)
- Lola Flores as Self (archive footage)
- José Isbert as Don Pablo (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Manuel Azaña as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Camilo José Cela as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Gary Cooper as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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