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...MADRID. With John Gielgud and Irene Worth among the narrators, French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif splices vintage newsreels into a masterful elegy for the victims of Spain's scarring civil...
...MADRID. Such narrators as John Gielgud and Irene Worth add eloquent words to rare newsreel footage assembled by French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif, who reshapes Spain's savage civil war of 1936-1939 into a powerful work...
...MADRID. Such narrators as John Gielgud and Irene Worth add eloquent words to rare newsreel footage assembled by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif, who reshapes Spain's savage civil war of 1936-1939 into a powerful work...
...Madrid is a 90-minute documentary knit into a tragedy-the story of the Spanish people during the scarring years (1936-39) of the civil war. To make it, French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif drew on English, French, Russian, German and U.S. newsreels, molding his material into an elegiac whole, a powerful work...
...Rossif is plainly with the Republicans. As the film opens the camera moves slowly over the land, while the commentary, narrated, among others, by John Gielgud and Irene Worth, begins: "Twenty-four million people ... 12 million illiterate . . . half of Spain is owned by 20,000 people." Scenes of old farmers and young boys, clumsily drilling in work clothes, grinning with hope as they go to the front, running helter-skelter into battle, are intercut with shots of Franco's disciplined soldiers and Hitler's crack Condor Legion. At war's end, boys and grizzled men are marched...