Documentary ·War · France · 1951 · 13m

Guernica

Director

Alain Resnais Robert Hessens

Cast

María Casares as Jacques Pruvost as

Crew

Henry Ferrand — Director of Photography Pierre Braunberger — Producer

Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes

short film

Key Collaborators

Alain Resnais Director Robert Hessens Director Henry Ferrand Director of Photography Pierre Braunberger Producer

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