| Summary: | A fascinating look at the Spanish Civil War trough a collage of contemporary archival footage. The saga begins in 1929 with the talented amateur filmmaker, Joan Salvans, son of a wealthy Catalan industrialist, of Terrassa. The Salvans were admired as one of the most successful wool manufacturers of Catalonia yet also detested by the emerging anarchists and socialist trade unionists. On 24 July 1936, six days after the Civil War broke out, a militant anarchist group led by 'Pedro el Cruel' killed Joan Salvans, filmmaker, and his father Francesco Salvans. What drove the anarchist 'Pedro el Cruel' to murder Salvans? And why did the Spanish army revolt against the Republic 1936? While searching for answers we travel through Spain's chaotic decade with the images and stories of several amateur filmmakers and their memories including republicans, anarchists, Communist, Germans, Italians, and Americans.
Péter Forgács
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