Guernica

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Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.

Country:

France

Genre:

Documentary,

War

Duration:

13 minutes

Year:

1951

Director:

Alain Resnais

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Company:

Panthéon Productions

Cast:
María Casares

Jacques Pruvost

Crew:
Alain Resnais

Director

Robert Hessens

Director

Paul Éluard

Poem

Pierre Braunberger

Producer

Guy Bernard

Music