Estos muros

Oct 1, 2021

1h 8m

★ 8.0

Forced labor during Franco's dictatorship

Overview

In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.

Genres

Documentary

History

Estos muros Trailers

Cast

Self - Archaeologist

Fernando Colmenarejo

Self - Anthropologist

Álvaro Falquina

Self - Social Anthropologist

María García Alonso

Self - Historian

Carlos Hernández de Miguel

Self - Historian

Fernando Mendiola

Self - Psychologist

Anna Miñarro

Self - Historian

Juanjo Olaizola

Self - Historian

Alicia Quintero

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