Land and Freedom

IMDb link: 0114671
IMDb rating: 7.5 (12,850 votes)
Genres: Drama, War
Director: Iciar Bollain, Ken Loach, Tom Gilroy
Cast: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor and others

Release date: 22 Mar 1996
Release year: 1995
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain
Keywords: spain, spanish civil war, trench warfare, anarchism, communist, fascist, fight, politics, revolution, anarchy

Plot:

An old man dies. Looking through his papers, his grand-daughter realises that he had fought in the Spanish Civil War. As a young Communist Party member, he (David) had gone to Spain in 1936 to fight the fascists. He joined the POUM militia which was allied to the militias of other left-wing groups. But the idealism of David and his friends was tested to its limit as their comrades were killed and the alliance disintegrated. The old man is buried. Was his struggle in vain?

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