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Galicia – Finis Terrae

Carlos Velo
Fernando G. Mantilla
1936 Spain 8 minutes Spanish
© DR

Filmed in September 1935, the film was to show the daily labour first of the peasants and then the fishermen, but today only fragments of the work remain. Influenced by Flaherty, Eisenstein and Dovjenko, it also constitutes a Frente Popular manifesto for social justice.

Photography :
Cecilio Paniagua
Sound :
Lucas Peña
Music :
Rodolfo Halffter
Withe the collaboration of :
Castelao, Xaquin Lourenzo “Xocas” (ethnographer), Rafael Dieste (script) Bal y Gay and Toner (musicologists)

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