The Man Who Was There (2013)

05/03/2013 (ES) • 30m

Documentary, History

Overview

The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

Top Billed Cast

Luis Camacho

Laboratory Technician

Rafael Díaz

Typographer

Eduardo Estrada

Radio Broadcaster (voice)

Ramón Soria Breña

Manuel Chaves Nogales

Clara Irina Torrente

Young Pilar Chaves Jones

Diego de la Serna

Self - Narrator (voice)

Pilar Chaves Jones

Self - Daughter

María Isabel Cintas

Self - Biographer

Jorge Martínez Reverte

Self - Journalist


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Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

world war ii

spanish civil war (1936-39)

biography

1940s

spanish second republic (1931-39)

1930s

war journalism

portrait of an artist

exiled spanish republican

short film

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