Land and Freedom

Land and Freedom or Tierra y Libertad is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight for the republican side in the Spanish Civil War. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Carr, a young unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party, leaves Liverpool and travels to Spain to join the International Brigades. He crosses the Spanish border in Catalonia and coincidentally ends up enlisted in a POUM militia commanded by Lawrence, in the Aragon front. In this company, as in all POUM militias, men and women such as the young and enthusiastic Maite fight together. In the following weeks and months he becomes friends with other foreign volunteers, like the French Bernard, and he falls in love with Blanca, a member of POUM, who is also the ideologue of his group.After being wounded and recovering in a hospital in Barcelona, he finally joins in accordance with his original plan and against the opinion of Blanca the governmentbacked International Brigades, and he encounters the Stalinist propaganda and repression against POUM members and anarchists he then returns to his old company, only to see them rounded up by a government unit requiring their surrender in a brief clash Blanca is killed. After her funeral he returns to Great Britain with a red neckerchief full of Spanish earth. ........

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