The Other Tree of Guernica (1969)
Genre : Family, Drama
Runtime : 1H 40M
Director : Pedro Lazaga
Synopsis
A group of children evacuated from Spain to Belgium are waiting for the Civil War end which will allow them to go back home.
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
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