land and freedom

Director: ken loach

Actor: ian hart,rosana pastor,icíar bollaín,tom gilroy

Data Published: Fri Apr 07 1995

Genres: Drama,War

Key Words: communist,spain,fascist,spanish civil war,anarchism

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114671/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_Freedom

Description: Land and Freedom is a movie starring Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, and Icíar Bollaín. David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the...

Plot: The film's narrative unfolds in a long flashback. David Carr has died at an old age and his granddaughter discovers old letters, newspapers and other documents in his room: what we see in the film is what he had lived. Carr, a young unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party, leaves Liverpool and travels to Spain to join the International Brigades. He crosses the Spanish border in Catalonia and coincidentally ends up enlisted in a POUM militia commanded by Lawrence, in the Aragon front. In this company, as in all POUM militias, men and women – such as the young and enthusiastic Maite – fight together. In the following weeks and months he becomes friends with other foreign volunteers, like the French Bernard and the Irish Coogan, and the latter's girlfriend Blanca – with whom David Carr later falls in love - also a member of POUM, and also the ideologue of his group. After being wounded and recovering in a hospital in Barcelona, he finally joins – in accordance with his original plan and against the opinion of Blanca – the government-backed International Brigades, and he encounters the Soviet propaganda and repression against POUM members and anarchists; he then returns to his old company, only to see them rounded up by a government unit requiring their surrender: in a brief clash Blanca is killed. After her funeral he returns to Great Britain with a red neckerchief full of Spanish earth. Finally the film comes back to the present, and we see Carr's funeral, in which his granddaughter throws the Spanish earth into his grave after speaking lines from "The Day Is Coming",[3] a poem by William Morris. Afterwards she performs a raised fist salute, honouring his beliefs.