Espoir: Sierra de Teruel

Espoir: Sierra de Teruel
Directed by André Malraux
Boris Peskine
Produced by Roland Tual
Edouard Corniglion-Molinier
Written by Max Aub
André Malraux (novel: L'Espoir
Antonio del Amo
Starring Andrés Mejuto
Nicolás Rodríguez
Music by Darius Milhaud
Cinematography Louis Page
Edited by Georges Grace
André Malraux
Distributed by Lopert Pictures Corporation
Release dates
 14 June 1945 - France
20 January 1947 - USA
26 June 1978 - Spain
Running time
 87 minutes
Country Spain
France
Language Spanish
Budget ESP 9,144,820 (US $77,380)

Espoir: Sierra de Teruel (English title: Days of Hope or Man's Hope) is a 1938-39 Spanish-French black and white war film, directed by Boris Peskine and André Malraux. It was not commercially released until 1945. Malraux wrote the novel L'Espoir, or Man's Hope, published in 1937, which was basis for the film. The director won the 1945 Prix Louis Delluc award.

The crash of Spanish Republican Air Force serial 'Potez 540' plane near Valdelinares inspired André Malraux to write the novel.[1]

The film is cited as having been completed in various years. The novel was published in French in 1937 and in English in 1938. The film uses war footage from 1938 and was edited, and other scenes shot, during 1938-1939. It was finished in July 1939 and shown twice in Paris, but the Francoist regime applied pressure to censor it. All known copies were destroyed during World War II, since both Spain and France were ruled by Fascist regimes sympathetic to the forces that shot down the plane. A copy was found and the film was released again in 1945. In Spain, it was banned and was not screened until 1977, after the death of dictator Franco.

Plot

The Spanish Republican soldiers fight against the better-equipped Francoist armies in the desolate Sistema Ibérico mountains of the Province of Teruel in 1937.[2]

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ Crashed Spanish Potez 540
  2. ↑ Espoir (1945)

External links

Espoir: Sierra de Teruel at the Internet Movie Database

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