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Spartacus Film Night - Libertarias


7:30pm
 - 9:30pm
Jeudi Septembre 27 2012

Venue: Spartacus Books
Address: 684 East Hastings Street

 

Spartacus Film Nights are part of an ongoing campaign of prisoner solidarity for folks in our communities directly effected by the prison and legal industrial complex. Donations are encouraged and welcomed. 

http://web.resist.ca/~vancouverg20support/index.php

 

Libertarias is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda.

In 1936, Maria (Ariadna Gil), a young nun is recruited by Pilar (Ana Belén), a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Guided by the older woman, Maria is exposed to the realities of war and revolution, and comes to question her former, sheltered life.

This big-budget movie is set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War.[1] Militia women Pilar (Ana Belen) and Floren (Victoria Abril) are joined by former prostitute Charo (Loles Leon) and former nun Maria (Ariadna Gil). The film opens with scenes of working class militants demolishing and burning religious icons, as they shout "down with Capitalism!" and "long live the libertarian revolution!"

While fully immersed in the overall enthusiasm of revolutionary Spain, Pilar and friends find themselves fighting against deep gender inequality which complicates their efforts in the war against Francisco Franco's Nationalist/Fascist/Catholic forces. They encounter resistance even within their own "Free Women" (Mujeres Libres) organization as one woman (that resembles Federica Montseny) tries to persuade them to stay and work in defense factories, while men try to convince them to go work as cooks, not front-line soldiers.

 

 

 


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