Recover the memory about the Civil War
According to Pedro Martín Matilla, president of the organising association, the cycle has the objective of promoting debate and reflection about the Spanish civil war, cutting the shameful silence encouraged by all the supposedly democratic institutions of our country about the most important page of our contemporary history.
The programmed events will start on Monday, April 8 with a talk "The conspiracy of silence after the death of Franco", that will have the presence of Marcelo Usabiaga, member of the Spanish maquis and of the French resistance to fascism and prisoner in various concentration camps in Spain and in Mathausen (Germany).
The cycle will continue with the projection of three films and a documentary. On Tuesday 9, "La Caza" by Carlos Saura, on Wednesday 10 "Bienvenido Mister Marshall" by Luis García Berlanga, on Thursday 11, "Pascual Duarte" by Ricardo Franco, and on Friday 12, "Muerte en el valle", documentary about a member of the International Brigades carried out by his daughter, who went to all the places where her father had been until he lost his life in the Valley of Aragón.
Both the opening talk and the four projections will take place at 8.30 p.m. in the association's headquarters in the classroom No. 8 of the old Institut de Sant Francesc Xavier on Formentera.
The programmed events will end on Sunday 14, at 2 p.m. at the old Concentration Camp la Savina, with a "Homenaje a la II República española y a quienes dieron la libertad y en ocasiones la vida en defensa de sus ideales", followed by a popular lunch in which each person will take some food to share.
More information:
Amigos de la Biblioteca Internacional de Formentera
Old Institut de Sant Francesc Xavier, aula nº 8
Sant Francesc Xavier de Formentera
Tel. 971 32 88 91
Fax 971 32 84 61
E-mail: la-internacional@formentera.net
Photos of the old Concentration Camp on Formentera ceded by the orgnisers.
Date of publication: 08/04/2002
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