Espoir: Sierra de Teruel

Espoir: Sierra de Teruel
Directed by André Malraux
Boris Peskine
Produced by Roland Tual
Edouard Corniglion-Molinier
Written by Max Aub
André Malraux (novel: L'Espoir
Antonio del Amo
Starring Andrés Mejuto
Nicolás Rodríguez
Music by Darius Milhaud
Cinematography Louis Page
Edited by Georges Grace
André Malraux
Distributed by Lopert Pictures Corporation
Release date
 14 June 1945 - France
20 January 1947 - USA
26 June 1978 - Spain
Running time
 87 minutes
Country Spain
France
Language Spanish
Budget ESP 9,144,820 (US $77,380)

Espoir: Sierra de Teruel (English title: Days of Hope or Man's Hope) is a 1938-39 Spanish-French black and white war film, directed by Boris Peskine and André Malraux. It was not commercially released until 1945. Malraux wrote the novel L'Espoir, or Man's Hope, published in 1937, which was basis for the film. The director won the 1945 Prix Louis Delluc award.

The crash of a Spanish Republican Air Force Potez 540 plane near Valdelinares inspired André Malraux to write the novel.[1]

Different years are given for the film's completion. The novel was published in French in 1937 and in English in 1938. The film uses war footage from 1938 and was edited, and other scenes shot, during 1938-1939. It was finished in July 1939 and shown twice in Paris, but Francoist Spain applied pressure to censor it. All known copies were destroyed during World War II. A copy was found and the film was released again in 1945. In Spain, it was banned and was not screened until 1977, after the death of Franco.

Plot

Spanish Republican forces fight against the better-equipped Nationalist armies in the desolate Sistema Ibérico mountains of the Province of Teruel in 1937.[2]

Cast

  • Andrés Mejuto ... Captain Munoz
  • Nicolás Rodríguez ... Pilot Marquez
  • José Sempere ... Commander Pena
  • Julio Peña ... Anttignies
  • Pedro Codina ... Schreiner
  • José María Lado ... Peasant

See also

References

  1. ↑ Forging Man's Fate in Spain, The Nation, March 20, 1937
  2. ↑ Espoir (1945)


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.