Dawn of Hope

Dawn of Hope

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 30, 1937

Runtime

1h 0m

Genres

Drama

User Score

50%

Original Title

Aurora de esperanza

Production Companies

S.I.E. Films

Director

Antonio Sau Olite

Description

"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made ​​in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells the story of John, a worker who has just become unemployed, their effort to get a new, impossible to work in a country with more than three million unemployed at the time, as it says in the film. John's wife also takes a humiliating job to feed their children. Outraged by this and seeing the conformism of the people, John ends up as a social agitator.