Luis Marías : 2012
Gernika under the bombs
Gernika in April 1937. The Spanish Civil War is smothering the last moments of the first Basque Government decided by ballot. Bilbao is the key objective of General Mola's rebel troops in order to take the whole North of Spain. And only a few kilometres from the city, in the town of Gernika, the situation is causing indecision and fear. Other nearby towns have been harshly bombed by the German Condor Legion under insurgent command. The enemy troops may enter at any time, given that the entire Republican army has fallen back to protect Bilbao. In that place, the stories of several everyday people unknown to one another interweave. Very different stories, all marked by the brutal aerial attack on the town of Gernika. Luis Marías's TV mini-series screened at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012.
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