Los Colonos del Caudillo en Argentina

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"España, años cincuenta. Asentada la mano dura del franquismo sobre la población y eliminado hasta el último núcleo de resistencia, el dictador de voz atiplada diseña un plan para reactivar la economía del país creando una serie de asentamientos rurales en los que propiciar el nacimiento de “el nuevo hombre fascista (...), el hombre antiurbano y antiobrero, apegado a la tierra, temeroso de Dios y devoto del régimen”. Llanos del Caudillo es uno de esos pueblos donde aún hoy día la presencia del general golpista sigue presente, en sus calles y en la memoria de sus vecinos, que en muchos casos se refieren al legado franquista con reverencia y agradecimiento. De algún modo, retratar Llanos del Caudillo es hacer un plano a escala de la España traumada y contradictoria que en pleno siglo XXI es incapaz de encarar su pasado histórico. Los colonos del Caudillo es la radiografía incómoda y contundente de ambas cosas: de la localidad manchega y del país que vivió el sueño europeo como una solución improbable para evitar recaer en la barbarie." (Fran Gayo)
Los Colonos del Caudillo en el festival BAFICI de Buenos Aires

"Spain. The fifties. Franco’s iron fist on the population has settled, and every resistance group has been eliminated. The dictator with the high-pitched voice concocts a plan to reactivate the country’s economy by creating a series of rural settlements in which to favor the birth of “the new fascist man (…), the anti-urban, anti-labor man, bonded to the land, fearful of God, and devoted to the regime”. Llanos del Caudillo is one of those towns where, even today, the presence of the coup-leading general is still strong in its streets and in the memory of its inhabitants, whom, in many cases, refer to the Francoist legacy with reverence and gratitude. In some way, portraying Llanos del Caudillo means to make a scale drawing of the traumatized, contradictory Spain that, well into the 21st Century, is incapable of facing its history. Franco’s Settlers is the uncomfortable, forceful study of both things: the locale in La Mancha and the country that lived the European dream as an improbable solution in order to avoid relapsing into barbarity." (Fran Gayo)
Franco's Settlers at the BAFICI film festival in Buenos Aires (English)

More screenings in Argentina / Más proyecciones en Argentina:

ARGENTINA
4 Buenos Aires (Festival de Cine) BAFICI (con el co-director Dietmar Post y Peréz Esquivel, quien obtuvo el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1980)
5 Buenos Aires (UBA) (con el co-director Dietmar Post) 
6 Buenos Aires (Festival de Cine) BAFICI (con el co-director Dietmar Post y Peréz Esquivel) 
7 Rosario (con el co-director Dietmar Post)  
7 Santa Fe (con el co-director Dietmar Post)  
8 Tucumán (con la participación de Dietmar Post, Hugo Cabral (Defensor del Pueblo), Laura Figueroa, Indiana Garzón, y el fiscal federal Sgo. Estero)
9 Córdoba (con la participación de Dietmar Post y Carlos Lascano, quien fue el Ministro de Justicia de Córdoba, y una antropóloga del grupo por la memoria) 
12 Buenos Aires (Festival de Cine) BAFICI
Details regarding the Argentinean film tour / Detalles de la gira en Argentina 


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