Los Caminos de la Memoria

30 years after Franco's death the Spanish government is finally lifting the veil on this period and do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims. The Franco dictatorship, one of the most violent regimes and feature 20th-century Europe, was kept in silence by Spain since its end, there are more than thirty years. In December 2007, the law of historical memory was passed despite the controversy. The Spanish government will finally lift the veil on this period and do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Franco. Jose Luis Peñafuerte, himself a descendant of the exiles, takes us on a journey in search of the repressed memory to open a window against oblivion. The pieces of the puzzle in Spain incomplete memory still abound: pits, concentration camps, prisons, roads of exile and still vivid traces of Francoism ...

Keywords

  • Guerre
  • freedom
  • identity
  • justice
  • mourning
  • politics

Actors

  • Jorge Semprún
  • Natividad Rodrigo
  • Francisco Etxeberría
  • Emilio Silva
  • Marisa Paredes
  • Nati Rodrigo
  • José-Luis Peñafuerte

Director

  • José-Luis Peñafuerte

Documentary


1h 36min


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Spain
2009
30 years after Franco's death the Spanish government is finally lifting the veil on this period and do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims.

30 years after Franco's death the Spanish government is finally lifting the veil on this period and do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims.


The Franco dictatorship, one of the most violent regimes and feature 20th-century Europe, was kept in silence by Spain since its end, there are more than thirty years. In December 2007, the law of historical memory was passed despite the controversy. The Spanish government will finally lift the veil on this period and do justice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Franco. Jose Luis Peñafuerte, himself a descendant of the exiles, takes us on a journey in search of the repressed memory to open a window against oblivion. The pieces of the puzzle in Spain incomplete memory still abound: pits, concentration camps, prisons, roads of exile and still vivid traces of Francoism ...

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