L'Exode d'un peuple

A war-time report film from February 1939 about The Retirada. The first images show the passing of cars and trucks on the Perthus bridge. Then we see the Spanish Republicans Retirada filmed in eight sequences defined as follows by the captions :

1 - "On the Spanish Side " Refugees gathered en masse , shots of a large crowd.

2 - " On the Border" Mass passage of families and civilians; requisition of weapons , pistols and rifles by the truckload.

3 - "The Officers of the Committee of Non- Intervention" Shots of officers .

4 - " Passage of the International Brigades " Inspection of families and soldiers, passage of armored cars "Armored Fuerzas," and several shots of weapons and ammunition; departure with the refugees, and stills from a car traveling the same route.

5 - " Refugee Camp in Boulou " Supply of rations of bread, waiting civilians sitting on the ground.

6 - " Evacuation of The Concentration Camps " Hundreds of thousands of men standing in a camp bordered by barbed wire, arrival of other refugees. Shots of the camp guards, Maghreb soldiers armed with sword.

7 - " Concentration Camps " General shots of the camps.

8 - "Equipment Parks" Parks , tanks , cannons ("Ministerio de Defensa Nacional AAA", "Fuerzas del Aire , transports").

Director

Llech, Louis, Isambert, Louis

Year

Février 1939

Type

Film

Length

00:29:47

Gauge

16mm

Sound

Silent

Image

B&W

Genre

Documentary

Theme

War and Military, History

Place

France > Le Perthus

Film archive

Institut Jean Vigo