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years later, and guided by Emilio Jona, aged 92, the last living member of that group of travellers, we recover the unpublished recordings and reconstruct the journey, today, across an emotional and political landscape, regaining historical memories through these songs, as relevant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.
“Together we lived the revolutionary experience of these last years. Together we took up arms in October. Together we suffered the bloody blows of the repression. As class brothers we rose up to crush the criminal uprising caused by the most rotten part of the Spanish reaction”. A story of the Sovereign Council of Asturias and Leon (August 24 – October 21, 1937).
Documentary about Gijón through the eyes of acclaimed singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas
Enrique Bunbury & Nacho Vegas at Liceu BCN as part of "El tiempo de la cerezas" tour
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