Land and Freedom

Name: Land and Freedom
Director: Ken Loach
Released: 1995

Ken Loach

Spanish Civil War Communist ideology Political betrayal Revolutionary struggle Idealism vs reality

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Synopsis

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.