Guernica
MovieTitle | Guernica |
User score | 5.9 |
Release date | Jun 6, 1951 |
Genre | Documentary, War |
Director | Alain Resnais , Robert Hessens |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Panthéon Productions |
Run time | 13 min. |
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.