Guernica (1950 film)

Guernica
Directed by	Alain Resnais Robert Hessens
Written by	Alain Resnais Paul Eluard
Starring	Maria Casares (narrator)
Music by	Guy Bernard
Cinematography	Henri Ferrand
Production company	Pantheon Productions
Distributed by	Les Films de la Pleiade
Release dates	1950
Running time	13 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Guernica (1950) is a French film directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens.^[1]

Synopsis

After a brief voiceover by Jacques Pruvost highlighting the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, María Casares recites a poem by Paul Eluard on the subject of that atrocity illustrated with numerous paintings, drawings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso, latterly the painting Guernica (1937). The oppressive musical arrangements were composed by Guy Bernard.

DVD release

Guernica is available as a special feature on the DVD edition of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.

References

↑ "Guernica". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-04-03.

External links

Guernica at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Alain Resnais

Feature films	Hiroshima mon amour (1959) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Muriel (1963) The War Is Over (1966) Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968) Stavisky (1974) Providence (1977) Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980) Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983) Love Unto Death (1984) Mélo (1986) I Want to Go Home (1989) Gershwin (TV, 1992) Smoking/No Smoking (1993) Same Old Song (1997) Not on the Lips (2003) Private Fears in Public Places (2006) Wild Grass (2009) You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2012) Life of Riley (2014)

Short films	Van Gogh (1948) Pictura: An Adventure in Art (Gauguin segment) Statues Also Die Night and Fog (1955) Toute la mémoire du monde Le Chant du styrène Segment "Claude Ridder" in Far from Vietnam

Pablo Picasso

Periods	Blue (1901–1904) Rose (1904–1906) African (1907–1909) Cubism (1910–1919)

Lists of works	1889–1900 1901–1910 1911–1920 1921–1930 1931–1940 1941–1950 1951–1960 1961–1970 1971–1973

Major works	Child with a Dove (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1902) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904) Woman Ironing (1904) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1905-06) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c.1921) The Three Dancers (1925) Vollard Suite (1930-37) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) Bull's Head (1942) The Charnel House (c.1944-48) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1950s) Baboon and Young (1951) Massacre in Korea (1951) Sylvette (1954) Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955) Don Quixote (1955) Las Meninas (1957) Jacqueline (1961) Chicago Picasso (1967)

Partners	Fernande Olivier (1904 to 1911) Eva Gouel (1912 to her death in 1915) Olga Khokhlova (married 1918, to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927 to 1935, mother of Maya) Dora Maar (1936 to 1944) Françoise Gilot (1944 to 1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) Geneviève Laporte (during the 1950s) Jacqueline Roque (married 1961 to Picasso's death 1973)

Family	Paloma Picasso Claude Picasso José Ruiz y Blasco

Colleagues and friends	Carlos Casagemas Marc Chagall Georges Braque Julio González Max Jacob Henri Matisse Jaime Sabartés

Patrons and biographers	Gertrude Stein Etta and Claribel Cone Douglas Cooper John Richardson Daniel Kahnweiler Paul Rosenberg Ambroise Vollard Patrick O'Brian

Museums	Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Musée Picasso (Paris) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga)

Films	Van Renoir tot Picasso (1948) Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) Picasso (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001)

Plays by Picasso	Desire Caught by the Tail c. (1941) The Four Little Girls c. (1947-1948)

Poetry by Picasso	Picasso's poetry

See also	Fundación Picasso Blanquita Suárez Picasso and the Ballets Russes Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria

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