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Since 1985 she has worked for Televisió de Catalunya. She has co-directed, with Ricard Belis, three award winnng documentary films, ''Los niños perdidos del franquismo'' (Franco's Forgotten Children, 2002), ''les fosses del silenci'' (the Spanish Holocaust, 2003), and ''El convoy de los 927'' ( 927 on the train to Hell, 2004) - all three produced by the weekly programme, ''30 Minuts'', consisting of newsreel footage, legal documents, historical analysis by historians, video footage, personal memories ''testimonios''. The films examine different aspects of the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] dictatorship; - the forced relocation of Republican children, disappearances and mass graves, and the 1940 deportation of Spanish Republicans from the French town of [[Angouleme]] to the [[Nazi]] concentration camp [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] , Austria. |
Since 1985 she has worked for Televisió de Catalunya. She has co-directed, with Ricard Belis, three award winnng documentary films, ''Los niños perdidos del franquismo'' (Franco's Forgotten Children, 2002), ''les fosses del silenci'' (the Spanish Holocaust, 2003), and ''El convoy de los 927'' ( 927 on the train to Hell, 2004) - all three produced by the weekly programme, ''30 Minuts'', consisting of newsreel footage, legal documents, historical analysis by historians, video footage, personal memories ''testimonios''. The films examine different aspects of the [[Spanish Civil War]] and the [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] dictatorship; - the forced relocation of Republican children, disappearances and mass graves, and the 1940 deportation of Spanish Republicans from the French town of [[Angouleme]] to the [[Nazi]] concentration camp [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] , Austria. |
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The films include many interviews, including with those who tell of how they were given to adoptive parents and how they hurt for being insulted for being the children of the "Reds" and by the fact they were never able to find their real parents. In ''The Spanish Holocaust'' film, in [[Zafra]], [[Extramadura]] the daughter of the last Republican mayor is interviewed in the village square - a square that contains a monument to a Francoist commander, Captain Castejon, a man who ordered 1% of the village population to be shot. |
The films include many interviews, including with those who tell of how they were given to adoptive parents and how they hurt for being insulted for being the children of the "Reds" and by the fact they were never able to find their real parents. In ''The Spanish Holocaust'' film, in [[Zafra]], [[Extramadura]] the daughter of the last Republican mayor is interviewed in the village square - a square that contains a monument to a Francoist commander, Captain Castejon, a man who ordered 1% of the village population to be shot. An elderly man Pablo Duque accompanies a historian, Antonio Lama, who has studied Francoist repression in Zafra, and details of the repression in the first days after the Republican defeat are given. Duque visits his cousin's niche ''la mataron embarazada'' (they killed her while she was pregnant) . He breaks down when he clutches his mother's photo: ''mi madre sufrio mucho por criarnos a los cuatro hermanos. La pelaron, le dieron medio litro de aceite de ricino, ...pobrecita mia, lo que la hicieron sufrir'' (My mother suffered a lot in order to care for the four of us brothers. They shaved her head; they gave her a liter of castor oil..My poor mother, they really made her suffer).<ref> Gina Herrmann, Unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.180 </ref> |
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During [[Jose Maria Aznar]]'s presidency, the state run television station ''la 2'', refused to purchase and air ''Les fossses del silenci''. <ref> Unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.175 </ref> |
During [[Jose Maria Aznar]]'s presidency, the state run television station ''la 2'', refused to purchase and air ''Les fossses del silenci''. <ref> Unearthing Franco's Legacy, p.175 </ref> |
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Montse Armengou Martín is a Catalan journalist, investigative documentary filmmaker.
Since 1985 she has worked for Televisió de Catalunya. She has co-directed, with Ricard Belis, three award winnng documentary films, Los niños perdidos del franquismo (Franco's Forgotten Children, 2002), les fosses del silenci (the Spanish Holocaust, 2003), and El convoy de los 927 ( 927 on the train to Hell, 2004) - all three produced by the weekly programme, 30 Minuts, consisting of newsreel footage, legal documents, historical analysis by historians, video footage, personal memories testimonios. The films examine different aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship; - the forced relocation of Republican children, disappearances and mass graves, and the 1940 deportation of Spanish Republicans from the French town of Angouleme to the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen , Austria.
The films include many interviews, including with those who tell of how they were given to adoptive parents and how they hurt for being insulted for being the children of the "Reds" and by the fact they were never able to find their real parents. In The Spanish Holocaust film, in Zafra, Extramadura the daughter of the last Republican mayor is interviewed in the village square - a square that contains a monument to a Francoist commander, Captain Castejon, a man who ordered 1% of the village population to be shot. An elderly man Pablo Duque accompanies a historian, Antonio Lama, who has studied Francoist repression in Zafra, and details of the repression in the first days after the Republican defeat are given. Duque visits his cousin's niche la mataron embarazada (they killed her while she was pregnant) . He breaks down when he clutches his mother's photo: mi madre sufrio mucho por criarnos a los cuatro hermanos. La pelaron, le dieron medio litro de aceite de ricino, ...pobrecita mia, lo que la hicieron sufrir (My mother suffered a lot in order to care for the four of us brothers. They shaved her head; they gave her a liter of castor oil..My poor mother, they really made her suffer).[1]
During Jose Maria Aznar's presidency, the state run television station la 2, refused to purchase and air Les fossses del silenci. [2]
References
- Unearthing Franco's Legacy, University of Notre Dame Press, 2010, 156-168.