documentary on the Reprisals of Francoism to which town hall in hand refused any help and cooperation and already has a release date: next Thursday, June 15 Paurides de Elda FoundationBetween 18:40 – 21:00 and free admission.
“Only people seeking freedom” run by Isabel Ginés, journalist and documentary filmmaker and Carlos Gonga, documentary filmmaker and documentary photographerand the oppression of the Franco dictatorship in Elda and other towns in Alicante.
Although he initially promised to sponsor her, Elda Heritage and Historical Memory Department The documentarians, led by socialist Amado Navalón, were eventually rejected for failing to succumb to the “censorship” of various elements. Thus, they replaced the municipal economic funds with those of a large number of activists. The democratic memory of Spain and France.
responsible council Dear Navalon Production was paralyzed after both documentary filmmakers specializing in historical memory and Francoist repression refused to remove it from the same promotional poster, although all of the victims’ relatives were connected to the project. republic flagincluded in the design on behalf of democratic values It was defended by people massacred by Francoism after the war, caused by a coup d’etat against the democratic government. Second Republic”, announced historical audio-visual writers.
“Frontism”
The councilor argued that both the flag and the word “band” – the name of the documentary initially. “Only the party seeking freedom”– provoked “frontier” and their one “Civil War Spirit”A spot shared on Twitter unwittingly endorses “an argument created by Franco’s propaganda since the 1960s and circulated by the Ministry of Information and Tourism when the dictatorship itself was ruled by Fraga.” Galician historian and researcher Lucio Martínez Pereda upon learning of the event
Likewise, the day after they received an email from city councilor Navalón requesting that two elements of the poster be withdrawn, the documentarians received a phone call from Juan Carlos Márquez, head of the Elda Historic Heritage division. “He warned us that if we went to Elda to register, it was our responsibility because if something happened to us, they wouldn’t be able to protect us or help us.” Ginés and Gonga say so, taking into account the words “totally inconsistent and out of place”. ”
After the Elda City Council’s outright refusal of any assistance or cooperation with the documentary, the documentarians decided to continue their commitment to the families, and in August 2022 a crowdfunding campaigna digital collection 3.500 Euros It is necessary to pay for the work.
Regarding its dissemination, Ginés and Gonga, The Democratic Military Memory Association is a movement of democratic soldiers and civilian guards, better known as the “anti-Franco army”.
Three months later, they started recording after they had the minimum amount needed to carry out the project.
families
The only claim of all the families of the retaliated people in this documentary has always been to record the murder of their relatives. defending freedom and a democratically elected governmentTrying to prevent the suffering they suffered in their homes from repeating history. Vicente Olcina is at the head of one of them, Vicente’s Machiran Millahis father, a militant CNTHours before he was murdered at the age of 28 and thrown into the common grave Alicante cemetery in 1942He cold-bloodedly engraved his initials on a metal plate that he secretly tied around his ankle to facilitate identification should he be exhumed, while at the same time he wrote a final letter to his family, on which he drew this plate.
Vicente, 86, from Eldense, was able to see his father’s plaque, which was taken from him when he was just four years old, while his grave was being dug last year. She keeps the words she shared in the documentary like gold, hoping that the DNA match will result in her father’s identity being revealed so she can piece together what’s left of her mother.
unusual story of his family vincent olcina It is just one of the things described in “Only those who seek freedom”. Barbara Bellot, Antonio Gisbert, Rafa Bernabeu and Fani de Harothe grandchildren and grandchildren of the men and women whose lives were taken by Francoist oppression in Alicante, who hid their bodies in the vast cordon of the mass graves of oppression victims of the Alicante cemetery of Nuestra Señora del Remedio; or as a story sonia calderonlooking for his missing great-grandfather.
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The documentary “Only those seeking freedom” received the support of Turkey. Ministry of Transparency, Participation, Cooperation and Democratic Quality Generalitat Valenciana in charge Minister Rosa Pérez Garijoand however Association of Relatives of the Victims of Alicante Cemetery FrancoismThe families to whom this documentary gives voice belong, two prominent assets in the struggle for reparation for the victims, as well as in the rescue and defense of the democratic memory of the Country of Valencia.
The premiere day will be on Thursday, June 15th at 6:40 pm, the event will be free access and will be held at the Paurides de Elda Foundation at number 1 Cardenal Cisneros street.. The documentary will come to light in front of anyone who wishes to participate, accompanied by the families involved, the collaborating professionals, and those who are committed to the full and accurate recovery of the historical memory of their land.
Francoism in Elda
in hand It was the capital of Spain for ten days in 1939, at a time when the final battles of the Civil War were being resolved. Very close to Elda was El Poblet, a farm in Petrer, known in code language as the Yuste Position. Residence of the President of the Second RepublicJuan Negrin, and part of the republican government. Elda has always been a land of shoemakers who have no choice but to make things like boots, shirts, belts or backpacks for the Republic army. Workshops also began to manufacture armor and weapons. It was also a haven for many people fleeing the bombardments. Elda changed and returned to the Republic but at the end of the war came a violent Francoist repression. to give permission after him at least 33 people were shot and 11 were deported to Nazi concentration camps.