70 Years After Start of Spanish Civil War - UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese presents Oct. 10–Dec. 5 film series on Franco era’s bloody beginning. - Los Angeles, California

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Posted on: September 29th, 2006
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“Under the fascist dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, the Spanish population suffered from severe repression, and it was taboo to talk of the trauma and torture of the 1936-39 civil war that brought Franco to power. But more than 30 years after Franco’s death, filmmakers are delving into the unexplored feelings of both the “winners” and “losers” of this bloody Spanish Civil War.

The UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese has coordinated a five-part film series, “Politics of Memory: New Documentaries on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco Era,” to showcase the research on the harsh, agonizing realities of the war that were previously unknown to most of the world. “

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