Songs for After a War (1976)

6.6/10 101 min Documentary History Music

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.

Cast

Francisco Franco

Self (archive footage)

Philippe Pétain

Self (archive footage)

Imperio Argentina

Self (archive footage)

Lola Flores

Self (archive footage)

José Isbert

Don Pablo (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Camilo José Cela

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gary Cooper

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Salvador Dalí

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Fontaine

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cary Grant

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rita Hayworth

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Danny Kaye

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alfredo Mayo

Jesús Churruca (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sara Montiel

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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