The Wife and Her House Husband
Toulouse la Rouge, directed by Marcello Peres and Nicola Tagliabue, is the first in a series of documentaries about the republican exile produced by the Domingo Malagón Foundation in collaboration wi…
The Wife and Her House Husband
Toulouse la Rouge, directed by Marcello Peres and Nicola Tagliabue, is the first in a series of documentaries about the republican exile produced by the Domingo Malagón Foundation in collaboration with Heracles Archeology and with the sponsorship of the Ministerio de la Presidencia Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria Democrática. The film documents the exodus between 1936-1939 of hundreds of thousands of Spanish republicans to France to escape the barbarity of the war and the political persecution of the Franco regime. The detention in the french concentration camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Vernet d'Ariège and Récébédou, the peripeteias throughout the Mediterranean and the drama of the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps are the antechamber of a long political exile, which for many people it will last until 1978. Toulouse was the epicenter of the reorganization of the guerrilla, the spanish parties, unions, youth and social movements in exile. The documentary shows with historical photographs, current videos and oral testimonies the political and social ferment that was breathed in the french city with the largest number of spanish refugees: the founding of the Hospital Varsovia, the guerrilla schools, the Val d'Aran operation, the reorganization of the PCE, the PSOE, the CNT, the UGT, the massive rallies, the covert meetings in the Place du Capitole and the Bourse du Travail, the detentions in the Modelo Prison, the clandestine press, the Bolero-Paprika operation, the dangerous trips under a fictitious identity to Madrid and Barcelonaare founding and embryonic elements of the democratic history of Spain. Toulouse la Rouge, Toulouse the spanish, continues to live in the stories and in the eyes of its protagonists.
The Wife and Her House Husband
Drama,Romance
Film Details
Toulouse la Rouge, directed by Marcello Peres and Nicola Tagliabue, is the first in a series of documentaries about the republican exile produced by the Domingo Malagón Foundation in collaboration with Heracles Archeology and with the sponsorship of the Ministerio de la Presidencia Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria Democrática. The film documents the exodus between 1936-1939 of hundreds of thousands of Spanish republicans to France to escape the barbarity of the war and the political persecution of the Franco regime. The detention in the french concentration camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Vernet d'Ariège and Récébédou, the peripeteias throughout the Mediterranean and the drama of the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps are the antechamber of a long political exile, which for many people it will last until 1978.
Toulouse was the epicenter of the reorganization of the guerrilla, the spanish parties, unions, youth and social movements in exile. The documentary shows with historical photographs, current videos and oral testimonies the political and social ferment that was breathed in the french city with the largest number of spanish refugees: the founding of the Hospital Varsovia, the guerrilla schools, the Val d'Aran operation, the reorganization of the PCE, the PSOE, the CNT, the UGT, the massive rallies, the covert meetings in the Place du Capitole and the Bourse du Travail, the detentions in the Modelo Prison, the clandestine press, the Bolero-Paprika operation, the dangerous trips under a fictitious identity to Madrid and Barcelonaare founding and embryonic elements of the democratic history of Spain. Toulouse la Rouge, Toulouse the spanish, continues to live in the stories and in the eyes of its protagonists..