Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina)
Location
JAAC 1037
Presentation Type
Event
Start Date
12-9-2018 7:00 PM
Description
Soldados de Salamina is a Spanish film based on the novel of the same title by Javier Cercas. Written in 2001, a time when Spanish scholars, politicians and society at large started to revisit not only the Spanish Civil War but also the 40 year-long dictatorship that followed the war, the movie uses a fictional journalist narrator to explore the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a real writer that received history purports to have been killed by Republican troops. After the transition to democracy in 1975, a “pact of silence” was established with the sole of purpose of silencing not only the victims but also the atrocities committed by both sides during the war. Intertwining fiction and history, even including interviews with real people involved in the original events, “Soldados de Salamina” reexamines the narratives of the civil war and its created heroes, and forces us to question who and what makes a “hero” and how we should honor them. In Spanish with English sub-titles. Discussion to follow film.
Recommended Citation
Pelaz, Natalia, "Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina)" (2018). Humanities Symposium. 5.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2018/ff2018/5
Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamina)
JAAC 1037
Soldados de Salamina is a Spanish film based on the novel of the same title by Javier Cercas. Written in 2001, a time when Spanish scholars, politicians and society at large started to revisit not only the Spanish Civil War but also the 40 year-long dictatorship that followed the war, the movie uses a fictional journalist narrator to explore the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a real writer that received history purports to have been killed by Republican troops. After the transition to democracy in 1975, a “pact of silence” was established with the sole of purpose of silencing not only the victims but also the atrocities committed by both sides during the war. Intertwining fiction and history, even including interviews with real people involved in the original events, “Soldados de Salamina” reexamines the narratives of the civil war and its created heroes, and forces us to question who and what makes a “hero” and how we should honor them. In Spanish with English sub-titles. Discussion to follow film.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Society and the Arts & Sciences