Canciones para después de una guerra (1971)

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Canciones is an amazing found-footage work that blends images from the Civil War and the early Franco years with both military and popular songs from the era. It was completed four years prior to Franco’s death, in a period when censorship had eased considerably, but was not allowed to be shown until the year after Franco had died. “The enjoyment of popular culture functioned as a survival strategy against wartime and dictatorial repression” and the film uses this to “reclaim the testimony of the popular memory to the detriment of the officially endorsed memory of the postwar years” (Tatjana Pavlovic, 100 Years of Spanish Cinema, p. 55).