The landscape of the Spanish Civil War is bleeding in the great writer’s only film. Premiere of the restored version as part of the Still Life. Portrait. Landscape. Genre Beside Itself programme.
Registration opens three weeks before the screening
Days of Hope
- Date:
- 17 Feb 2027,
19:30–21:15
Registration opens three weeks before the screening
- Age restrictions
- 18+
Sierra de Teruel
France–Spain
90 minutes, Spanish with Russian subtitles
Starring: Andrés Mejuto, Nicolás Rodríguez, José Santpere, Julio Peña
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Late 1937. The Republicans’ resistance in the mountains of Aragon is barely holding out against the Falangists. The anti-fascists resolve to carry out one final operation: to rescue their comrades, they must bomb a secret airfield housing German airplanes. But how can they find it?
Still from Days of Hope, 1940
A masterpiece that could have decisively altered the course of Spanish cinema had it been released—and, of course, had the course of our history been different.
— Miguel Marías, Dirigido por...
In his only directorial work, the writer André Malraux reconstructed the historical events at the height of the conflict and at its epicentre. The film depicts blood-soaked landscapes of the Civil war and, it seems, the very tremor of a land shaken by the events unfolding across it.
