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      The Silence of Others

      Released May 8, 2019 1h 36m Documentary List
      100% Tomatometer 25 Reviews 85% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Victims of the Franco regime continue to seek justice. Read More Read Less

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      Peter Rainer FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) It's a powerful movie... The only problem of the movie (that is not the fault of the film) is that you're hoping for some great resolution and for the most part it doesn't happen. Sep 30, 2019 Full Review Matthew Lickona San Diego Reader Directors Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar's documentary...tracks the dogged efforts of those who refuse to let the past stay buried when the suffering it caused is still very much alive. Rated: 3/5 May 31, 2019 Full Review Michael Rechtshaffen Los Angeles Times It may be more than 40 years since the death of Gen. Francisco Franco, but the chilling effects of his brutal regime continue to reverberate as affectingly illustrated in "The Silence of Others." May 23, 2019 Full Review Dennis Harvey 48 Hills [It] powerfully illustrates the value of dogged persistence by victims seeking justice... Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Elizabeth Limón En Filme The Silence of Others portrays the denial of the right to justice and the need for social movements that attempt to reclaim the abuses that the past left behind. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 3.5/5 Oct 21, 2019 Full Review Nicolás Quinteros EscribiendoCine The film constructs a space for memory and so that this story can come to light. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 6/10 Sep 11, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Angie G Excellent! It should be show in secondary schools for students to learn the truth of what happened and what is going on in Spain. The human rights injustice. And how international countries governments have turned a blind eye to the situation. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/01/23 Full Review Audience Member For many years I've wondered how Spain managed to bury its past of over 2,000 mass graves, more than 100,000 Spaniards murdered, thousands tortured, thousands of slave laborers worked to the bone in Spain long after the end of the country's civil war. I finally found a moment to watch Almudena Carracedo and Roberto Bahar's doc "The Silence of Others" and now I understand. I cried buckets of tears. What kills me is man's inhumanity to man, Spaniards one against the other, even decades after the end of Franquísmo. This hostility and incivility lives in the US today, it lived in Chile for decades (and may still for all I know), Argentina, Cambodia, the Balkans etc. We know it all too well. It's alive amongst the settlers in Palestine. This film is a great service to historical memory. Our work as artists and writers, as publishers, as citizens, is that we are keepers of the flame, we remind others of what matters, freedom of expression, justice and truth. Forgetting is not possible until justice is served. Watch and discuss this film, and remember, it can happen anywhere. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member "UN ESPACIO PARA DAR VOZ AQUELLOS QUE SE LES CALLO" Al principio uno creo que el documentan en el cual después descubrí que participaba Almodóvar, va a tratar de las victimas directas de la dictadura Franquista en España y sus pesares en un sentido mas de recordar los sucesos y empatizar y dar una voz para algo que se ha querido ocultar en la historia de España, pero el documental a pesar que si toca este lado emotivo, rápidamente da pie a una batalla legal, que aunque se vea como un paso muy pequeño las personas que participan en esta Querella al final me dejo pensando en los verdaderos héroes y temerarios que eran, porque por mas mínimo que sea el avance que se ha dado con años de lucha y esfuerzo perdiendo participantes claves en el proceso, ellos lo festejan como un gran logro y es al final de este documental donde ves ese lado sensible que hablaba al principio, de como las victimas que lo vivieron lidian con ello en su vida y como lidian la perdida de aquellos que con mucho esfuerzo se les esta buscando una esperanza de descansar en paz, no quiero menospreciar todo el resto de la cinta, ya que una guerra también es política y que muestren esta carrera legal por buscar justicia me parece prudente y se agradece saber que hay personas que persigan estos ideales, pero para mi siempre se me quedara en la mente esos últimos momentos agridulces de una mujer por fin dándole un descanso a su padre, pero topándose con la realidad una vez mas del dolor de la perdida de un ser querido y eso me quebró por dentro. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Poderoso documental . No conocía estas historias. La verdad siempre aflora. Tarde o temprano. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member La brutalidad humana no tiene límite ni fronteras. Lo del franquismo fue un crimen contra la humanidad que decidieron "olvidar". Gran documental para recordar y nunca olvidar, no se trata jamás de venganza, se trata de justicia. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Victims of the Franco regime continue to seek justice.
      Director
      Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo
      Producer
      Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Sally Jo Fifer, Esther García, Justine Nagan, Chris White, Sandie Viquez Pedlow
      Screenwriter
      Ricardo Acosta, Robert Bahar, Almudena Carracedo, Kim Roberts
      Distributor
      Argot Pictures
      Production Co
      Semilla Verde Productions, El Deseo, Latino Public Broadcasting, Independent Television Service, Lucernam Films
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      Spanish (Spain)
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 8, 2019, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 2, 2020
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $66.3K
      Runtime
      1h 36m