Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Karra Elejalde | ... | Miguel | |
Eduard Fernández | ... | Millán Astray | |
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Santi Prego | ... | Franco |
Nathalie Poza | ... | Ana | |
Luis Bermejo | ... | Nicolás | |
Tito Valverde | ... | Cabanellas | |
Patricia López Arnaiz | ... | María | |
Inma Cuevas | ... | Felisa | |
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Carlos Serrano-Clark | ... | Salvador |
Luis Zahera | ... | Atilano | |
Ainhoa Santamaría | ... | Enriqueta | |
Mireia Rey | ... | Carmen | |
Luis Callejo | ... | Mola | |
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Dafnis Balduz | ... | Ramos |
Jorge Andreu | ... | Miguelín |
July 18, 1936. Salamanca, Castilla and León (center to Spain). The Spanish army declares the state of war in the city, hoping to extend it to the rest of Spain and improve the unstable situation in the country after the proclamation of the Second Republic five years ago. An aging Miguel de Unamuno, not only writer and academic teacher but one of the most recognized intellectuals in Spain, disappointed with the Republic that publicly he helped to create, supports the new revolt in the hope to clean the country of the undesirable elements for desperation of his close friends teacher Salvador and priest Atilano, creating too many problems in his house where Miguel lives with his daughters María and Felisa, his housemaid Aurelia and his grandson Miguelín. At the same time that Salamanca's mayor Casto Prieto is arrested without cause apparent and his wife Ana asks help Miguel de Unamuno, the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet to decide the strategy to take the power, where the merciless one-eyed, ... Written by Chockys
This is a very good movie, well-acted, well directed and with a nice photography, but the most important is its message and the reflection it causes.
The movie is about Spain in the 30s, but I see its importance in the actual context I'm living right now in my country as a brazilian.
The people who supports or simply doesn't stand up against fascism are not necessarily fascists as we can see in the main character. The brutality, fanatism and absurd could be right in front of your eyes and you still are not able to see and comprehend it, specially if the context you are living is confusing and complex.
Spain paid a very high price because of this and suffered for 40 years in the hands of a fascist - an upholder for the "good spaniards".
That's a movie that should be shown to people like Miguel de Unamuno before it's too late, like it was for him.