Spanish A.B.C. (1938)

『ブレイド2』や超大作『ヘルボーイ』の成功でハリウッドでも注目を集めるメキシコの異才、ギレルモ・デル・トロ監督がスペインに招かれて撮ったホラー映画。激情型の男を演じたスペインのビッグスター、『オープン・ユア・アイズ』のエドゥアルド・ノリエガや、新星フェルナンド・ティエルブの熱演も見ものだ。ヨーロッパの血塗られた歴史と風土に培われた、怨念のすさまじさが霊を生息させ、さらに恐怖の結末を招く。

1958年、ノイシュタット。15歳のマイケルは偶然から知り合った年上の女性ハンナに誘惑され、彼女に童貞を捧げる。ハンナの部屋に通い出すマイケルだが、彼女から頼まれ、「オデュッセイア」「犬を連れた奥さん」などの古典小説を彼女に朗読するように。そんなマイケルが彼女との愛が深まったと感じた時、ハンナは突然、彼の前から姿を消してしまう。8年後、法学生になったマイケルがハンナと再会したのは意外な場所だった。

スペイン動乱を舞台に、ゲリラ活動に参加したアメリカ人の心情を描いた悲恋ドラマ。E・ヘミングウェイの同名小説をサム・ウッドが映画化。 政府の軍事輸送を阻止するため、鉄橋の爆破計画が練られた。作戦に参加したアメリカ人ロバートは、ジプシーのゲリラに協力を求める。そこでロバートは、美しい娘マリアと出会い、二人は激しく惹かれ合うが……。

偶然妊娠し、出産を控えた未婚の女性二人が病室で出会う。ジャニスは中年で、後悔しておらず、幸せそうだ。アナは10代で、後悔しており、怯えている。

Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

Ａ・タルコフスキーの作品は様々な映像の断片がコラージュされたようなものばかりである。この「鏡」もまたそうであり、彼の自伝的要素を持つというが、解るような解らないような……。でもその数々の映像はどれもこれもかっこ良く、戦争の記録フィルムらしきものも出てくる。物語などの存在は忘れてただひたすら映像の中で泳ぐような感覚で、なんとも美しい一本だ。

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

一人の少女を主人公に、彼女が体験する現実と空想の交錯した世界を繊細に描き出した作品。スペインのとある小さな村に「フランケンシュタイン」の巡回映画がやってくる。6歳の少女アナは姉から怪物は村外れの一軒家に隠れていると聞き、それを信じ込む。そんなある日、彼女がその家を訪れた時、そこで一人のスペイン内戦で傷ついた負傷兵と出合い……。

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.

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.

A soldier protects a mule during the Spanish Civil War.

1930年代後半のスペイン。ヒトラー率いる左派ファシズムとスターリン側の右派共産主義に別れ第二次世界大戦の代理戦争となる内戦が開始されていた。父を共産主義者に殺された青年マノロは神学校を辞め、左派ファシズムのスパイに転進を図る。幼馴染のホセマリアは心から彼を案じ、神の道に進む決意を新たにする。マノロは、共和国側の革命を目指す若者が集まる演説会場に出向き、若き指導者のオリオールと美しいハンガリーの娘、イルディコと親交を深め 人民戦線の民兵として潜入に成功、激しい前線を命を削りながら戦う日々を送る。しかしそれは憎しみから出る信念なき戦いであった。一方、ホセマリアは、神父として民の心の支えになって生きていたが、内戦をきっかけに激しい反宗教的迫害にあっていた。しかし右派から命を狙われても、自らの信念を曲げず地下に潜り信仰を続ける日々を送っていた。まるで正反対の人生を歩む2人だったが、激しくなる戦火の中、複雑に運命は絡み合い遂に命を狙う側と狙われる側として再会してしまう。

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Huelva to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later