Basilio Martín Patino: Freedom and Independence
El grito del sur: Casas Viejas (The Cry of the South: Casas Viejas)
Basilio Martín Patino
Spain, 1996
DVcam (PAL) | 92min. | Colour
Basilio Martín Patino
Spain, 1996
DVcam (PAL) | 92min. | Colour
Production: La Linterna Mágica para TVE
Photography: Luis Cano
Editor: Fernando Pardo
Screenplay: Basilio Martín Patino
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich
Actors: Reginald Shave, Ricardo Muñoz Suay, ciutadans de Cazalla de la Sierra, El Pedroso
Photography: Luis Cano
Editor: Fernando Pardo
Screenplay: Basilio Martín Patino
Music: Dimitri Shostakovich
Actors: Reginald Shave, Ricardo Muñoz Suay, ciutadans de Cazalla de la Sierra, El Pedroso
In 1933 a revolt by peasants in the village of Casas Viejas in the province of Cádiz was brutally put down by law-enforcement officers serving the Republic. El grito del sur: Casas Viejas reconstructs this historic event through contemporary accounts, historical analysis and clips of supposedly ‘recovered' films. While several historians offer data on the massacre and events leading up to it (unemployment, hunger, the need for land reform, frustration at the Republic failing to live up to the hopes it sparked) current-day residents look at old photographs and talk about their ancestors.
