Top billed cast

1. 

   Ian Hart

   David Carr

2. 

   Rosana Pastor

   Blanca

3. 

   Frédéric Pierrot

   Bernard

4. 

   Icíar Bollaín

   Maite

5. 

   Tom Gilroy

   Lawrence

6. 

   Angela Clarke

   Kitty

7. 

   Eoin McCarthy

   Connor

8. 

   Suzanne Maddock

   Kim

9. 

   Jordi Dauder

   Salas

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-07-24

“David” (Ian Hart) is stuck in Liverpool in the late 1930s with little by way of prospects, so he decides to go and fight for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. He readily makes friends and is soon joined up with POUM, a collection of Marxists where he encounters “Bianca” (Rosana Pastor) and discovers quickly that this is a brutal conflict. His ‘side’ are united in their intellectual detestation of fascism, but thereafter he soon discovers that there is little else that glues this disparate group of communists together and after he is wounded, he heads to Barce...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• worker
• spain
• solidarity
• revolution
• fascism
• spanish civil war (1936-39)
• anarchist
• franco regime (francoism)
• betrayal
• working class