Franco's Settlers (Los Colonos del Caudillo)

Franco's Settlers (Los Colonos del Caudillo)

Directed by Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios
A film about a small Spanish village that keeps paying tribute to its creator dictator Franco.

Overview

Genre
Current Affairs, Human Rights, Politics, Portrait, and History
Synopsis

Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco.
Llanos del Caudillo was one of over 300 settlement villages built during the dictatorship of General Franco between 1939 and 1975. The ideological goal of these communities was to create the new fascist man.
The film portraits this small town as if we were looking through a magnifying glass, reviewing the Spanish history since Franco took power until 2010, when judge Baltasar Garzón, famous for having prosecuted Augusto Pinochet, was convicted by the Spanish Supreme Court and banned from office because of his attempt to investigate the crimes committed during the dictatorship.
Franco’s Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the heritage of their past.

Stage
finished
Running time
112 minutes

Credits

  • Dietmar Post ... Director, Producer, Camera
  • Lucia Palacios ... Director, Producer, Camera
  • Karl-W. Huelsenbeck ... Editor
  • Juan Diego Botto ... Narrator
  • Daniel Richter ... Artwork

Production Details

Prod. Co.
play loud! productions
Country
Germany
Years of Production
2012
Locations
Llanos del Caudillo, Ciudad Real, Madrid, Unkel, Nerja
Prod. Partners
Lucia Palacios P.C.

Distribution Details

Release year
2012
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
English, German, French

Photos

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