TBC
1hr 39mins

Ricardo Macián's fascinating historical documentary profiles the director of satirical magazine La Traca during the Spanish Civil War: Vincente Carceller, alongside its most renowned cartoonist, Carlos Gómez Carrera "Bluff".


Presented in partnership with Newcastle University, this special screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Ricardo Macián, hosted by Jorge Catala-Carrasco (Reader in Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University) and Professor Santiago Fouz Hernández (Professor in Film Studies at Durham University).

Unfortunately no Audio Description track is available for this feature.
Ricardo Macián
TBC
Documentary
Spanish
Contains Foreign Language Subtitles

After more than 81 years, we open a door to the past and discover a part of historical memory not yet completely unearthed; that of VICENTE MIGUEL CARCELLER, an editor committed to freedom, whose weekly LA TRACA connected with the common people and maintained a struggle with power from 1909 to 1940, selling half a million copies weekly.

A hedonist and transgressive who, with his articles and hurtful cartoons against the church, the king and fascist generals such as Franco and Queipo de llano, turned its success into a destination.

In 1940, CARCELLER and Carlos Gómez Carrera, alias Bluff; editor and cartoonist of the weekly, were both silenced, by a firing squad first and by Francoist repression later, far beyond the end of the dictatorship.


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Thu 20 Nov