72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Gernika, the Spirit of the Tree

Laurence Boulting
Spain
Synopsis

An impressive portrait of the Basque people agains the backdrop of the bombing of Gernika. Three ederly women relate their personal memories of this tragedy while attending a wedding banquet in a cider-house. They recall the massacre of innocent farmers, the death of a young man on the day before his wedding, ad the bloody repression of a birhtday party. Part drama, part documentary, this film not only returns to the destruction of Gernika fifty years ago, but also reveals what the city means to the Basques today. 

Director
Laurence Boulting
Format
35 mm
Running Time
60 m.
Country
Spain
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