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Josefina Cembrero | ... | Self |
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Leonor Mediavilla | ... | Self |
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Victoria Toro | ... | Self |
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Josefina Pérez | ... | Self |
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Pedro Serrano | ... | Self |
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Virginia Serrano | ... | Self |
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José Luis Leal | ... | Self |
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Juan Chacón | ... | Self |
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Heinz Saidel | ... | Self |
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Hans Peter Steber | ... | Self |
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Hedi Stoinski | ... | Self |
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Álvaro Rengifo | ... | Self |
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Victor Gano | ... | Self |
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Fernando Reinlein | ||
Spain, 1960's. Two million Spaniards leave the country forced by need. Destination: France, Germany, Switzerland and The Neederlands. Half of them are illegal immigrants who travel without a contract of employment. 80% of them are illiterate. They have to face the wall of different language and habits. Spain, at present: other people in need knock on the doors of a prosperous nation. Almost nobody remembers the story. Josefina does. She keeps memory alive by her travel in the memory train. Destination: Nuremberg, Germany. Written by Producciones La Iguana s.l. (es)
Even though Spain has received hundreds of thousands of migrants, if not millions, from Africa and South America in the last two decades, there's very little exploration of the time when Spaniards themselves migrated massively to European nations like France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Germany. Now when the best educated youth are packing to migrate due to the long crisis is the right time to recall the experiences of the uneducated ones that left in the 1960s and 1970s in trains, packed like cattle. This documentary narrates the story of one of them, a woman who left Castille for Nuremberg. The film is a heart-breaking testimonial not only of her sad adventure but also of that of thousands of Spaniards ruthlessly exploited to support the German miracle. Absolutely worth watching particularly if you live in Spain and are one of those packing right now. Or one of those who pretend that under Franco all was well.