In 2010, an Argentinean judge launched an attempt to prosecute crimes committed during the Franco dictatorship. Will the so-called Argentinean trials become the Spanish Nuremberg?
Franco on Trial is the new film by Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios. After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presumed organized extermination that took place during the coup, the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing crimes against humanity. The film is also a sore reminder of an issue that still stands today: the clear-cut accountability held by Germany, Italy, and Portugal. The film accomplishes to give both sides a voice - those against whom the killing has been directed; and the side of the perpetrators.
Dietmar Post
Director
Lucía Palacios
Director
Konrad Adenauer
Self (archive footage)
Francisco Franco
Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
António de Oliveira Salazar
Self (archive footage)
El silencio de otros80%
La batalla de Chile (Parte 1). La insurrección de la burguesía73%
Brother's Keeper70%
Sherman's March67%
Champs63%
Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo72%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster69%
The War Room68%
180° South72%
Thought Crimes62%
11M64%
(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies73%
Las tres muertes de Marisela Escobedo88%
We Live in Public68%
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside77%
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library64%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
Cuba and the Cameraman74%
