Movies: Vera Robert

Between October 1937 and November 1952 hundreds of Republican supporters took to the mountains of Asturias with two main objectives: to save their lives, and to continue their armed resistance against Franco. Many of them would die in those mountains...

Contracampos is the attempt to (re)build a landscape. A recreational area and a shooting range in the west of Asturies, which, between 1937 and 1943, housed a Francoist concentration camp through which thousands of Republicans passed – firstly militi...

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“Together we lived the revolutionary experience of these last years. Together we took up arms in October. Together we suffered the bloody blows of the repression. As class brothers we rose up to crush the criminal uprising caused by the most rotten p...

After the recent closure of the Carrio well, a symbol of the end of an industry that has marked the character of a town, Barredos faces depopulation and oblivion. However, the testimonies of those who are still alive and the photographic material fro...

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After more than a decade working in England, the filmmaker Elisa Cepedal returns to Cuencas to shoot a film about the end of the two centuries of history of coal mining: around her other remains of her land's past are dying....

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A new look at the Spanish Civil War, from the 'graffiti' drawn in the dungeons of Cangas del Narcea by political prisoners sentenced to death....

A small film crew moves through Asturias in search of the places where the main ambushes against the Republican Guerrilla (1937-1952) took place. In that trip, they meet several people willing to share with them their memories of that time....

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Documentary directed by Ramón Lluís Bande about the creative process Nacho Vegas makes about El Fulgor, song included in his second album "Cajas de música difíciles de parar" (2003)....