Franco's Settlers (Los Colonos del Caudillo)
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Overview
- Genre
- Current Affairs, Human Rights, Politics, Portrait, and History
- Synopsis
Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco.
Llanos del Caudillo was one of over 300 settlement villages built during the dictatorship of General Franco between 1939 and 1975. The ideological goal of these communities was to create the new fascist man.
The film portraits this small town as if we were looking through a magnifying glass, reviewing the Spanish history since Franco took power until 2010, when judge Baltasar Garzón, famous for having prosecuted Augusto Pinochet, was convicted by the Spanish Supreme Court and banned from office because of his attempt to investigate the crimes committed during the dictatorship.
Franco’s Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the heritage of their past.- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 112 minutes
Credits
- Dietmar Post ... Director, Producer, Camera
- Lucia Palacios ... Director, Producer, Camera
- Karl-W. Huelsenbeck ... Editor
- Juan Diego Botto ... Narrator
- Daniel Richter ... Artwork
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- play loud! productions
- Country
- Germany
- Years of Production
- 2012
- Locations
- Llanos del Caudillo, Ciudad Real, Madrid, Unkel, Nerja
- Prod. Partners
- Lucia Palacios P.C.
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2012
- Language
- Spanish
- Subtitles
- English, German, French
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