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The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise

The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 22, 2024

Genres

Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

La marsellesa de los borrachos

Production Companies

Boogaloo Films, Les Films de l’œil sauvage, Graffiti Doc, Escarlata Estudios

Director

Pablo Gil Rituerto

Description

In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that supported anti-Franco resistance. As a result of their work, they were prosecuted and their recordings were censored. Sixty years later, and guided by Emilio Jona, aged 92, the last living member of that group of travellers, we recover the unpublished recordings and reconstruct the journey, today, across an emotional and political landscape, regaining historical memories through these songs, as relevant today as they were then.