Himself (President of Spain)
Manuel Azaña
Himself (President of Spain)
Overview
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Cast
Himself (Parliamentarian)
José Díaz
Himself (Parliamentarian)
Herself
Dolores Ibárruri
Herself
Himself (Republican Army)
Enrique Lister
Himself (Republican Army)
Himself (Republican Army)
Commander Martinez de Aragón
Himself (Republican Army)
Himself (German writer)
Gustav Regler
Himself (German writer)
Narrator (voice)
Orson Welles
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Ernest Hemingway
Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Jean Renoir
Narrator (voice)
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