Ramon mercader y sara montiel biography
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Storm the Skies
Masterpiece of modern history in a documentary film.
The rulle walks along the life of a dark (until this film) character involved in some of the main historical movements of the XX century. In the röst of the people who met him, we know the Spaniard communist who murdered the exiled Soviet leader León Trotski. Mercader (his real last name) was the son of a woman who was one of the main communist leaders in the Spanish Civil War; grows as an immigrant child in the recent born URSS, becomes a Communist warrior and plays as a peon in the confrontation of the ideological (and real) wars of the world until his lonely death in Cuba. The bio goes from Spain to Russia, France, US, Mexico and Cuba following the, most of the time, underground life of this singular man. We met in the voice and gestures of his schoolmates, lover's friends, relatives, victim's followers, jail mates, tjänsteman and unofficial documents, a man who did the dirty (or heroic) work of
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The Man Who Loved Dogs is a translation of Leonardo Padura’s historical novel about the background to Trotsky’s assassination in Mexico City in It is a story of broad scope and shifting perspectives, ranging across the Russian Revolution, Trotsky’s exile, the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet show trials, and post-war Cuba. The tale begins with a funeral and ends with a funeral: both take place in Cuba and neither one is that of the assassin’s victim.
The first occurs against the background of the tropical Hurricane Ivan. Soon after this a chance encounter propels Ivan Maturell, a failing writer, into the maelstrom of twentieth century history. In he sees a man walking his dogs on the beach and, shadowing him (whether as protector or jailer is unclear), a tall black man who is to provide the key to the story.
From the outset we are presented with changes of time, place and point of view. The action moves quickly from the Caribbean to Trotsky’s exile and hi
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One of the signature genres of The Labyrinth Project, archival cultural histories provide access to a large body of diverse historical data (including texts, images, sounds, maps, material objects, etc.) structured as archives (either as on-line digital records or a material site), out of which many historical narratives can be generated by a variety of users with different goals. These histories can be presented as an installation, an on-line website, a DVD-ROM, an anthology, an essay, a book, a film, a television series, a radio broadcast, a live performance, a photographic exhibition or some other interactive narrative form.
Film Quarterly (Spring )
MK essay: “Uncanny Visions of History: Two Experimental Documentaries from Transnational Spain—Asaltar los cielos and Tren de sombras”