Spaniards! ( Ispansi! ) ( Españoles )

Spaniards! (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Ispansi!
Alternate Title: Españoles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Moscow International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min + 27 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Carlos Iglesias

Written By:
Carlos Iglesias

Actors:
Esther Regina ..... Paula
Carlos Iglesias ..... Álvaro
Eloisa Vargas ..... Piedad
Anahí Beholi ..... Monja joven
Isabel Blanco ..... Rosario
Francisco Conde ..... Guardia
Olga Dinnikova ..... La Suiza
Dorin Dragos ..... Dorin
Iñaki Guevara ..... Jorge
Roberto Hijón ..... Oficial alemán
Bruto Pomeroy ..... Ángel
Isabelle Stoffel ..... Ludmila
Camino Texeira ..... Paula sirvienta

Synopsis:

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, the Republic sent over 3,000 children to Russia, along with nurses, doctors, teachers, and others to care for them. From the beginning, the relationship between the 'Ispansi' (Russian for Spaniards) and their somewhat reluctant hosts was difficult, plagued by language differences, shortage of supplies, and increasingly by political disagreements. But after Hitler's invasion, both hosts and guests found themselves struggling together to survive. Carlos Iglesias's gripping new film tells a little-known chapter of Spanish history with grace and sensitivity to the complexity of the historical moment.

Focuses on the so-called 'children of the war' who were evacuated to the Soviet Union during the civil conflict that devastated Spain in the 1930s and were never able to return to their native country. The story centers on two natural enemies: a Falangist nurse who hides her identity and a political commissar of the Spanish Communist Party. They meet and fall in love on a train full of children fleeing from Moscow to the Urals after the offensive by Adolf Hitler's troops in 1941.

The filmmaker tosses us into the thick of things immediately, introducing characters we will only slowly know and understand. He then backtracks to the past, showing us how they got into this strange place, and then carries them forward into, well, you can hardly imagine the ins and outs and ups and downs you're about to experience. Though this is a tale of children, Iglesias wisely makes it a love story, too - but one that take ever so long to flame. For quite some time we don't even know that it is, or will be, a love story. Yet by the time it explodes, we are already completely in its grasp.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 January, 2012.

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