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Movie poster for Guernica (1951)

Guernica

“Picasso's most famous work bears witness to the atrocities of the Spanish civil war and fascism.”

1951
13m
Director: Alain Resnais

Overview

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.

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