Letters from a Spanich exile in France

Collection title

Veus ofegades

ID

TV300026

Source

TV3 (ES)

First broadcast date

03/05/2002

Production year

2002

Abstract

This video is an historical documentary based on letters written by Catalan Republican refugees living in France between 1939 and 1945. The letters most of which come from the Basque-Catalan ANC Archives, offer a look at the paths taken by anonymous exiles: concentration camps, refugee centers, Companies of Spanish Workers, Foreign Workers Groups (under the Vichy regime), TODT engineering works (under German occupation), Obligatory Work Service (in Germany), the Resistance and, finally, the Liberation. None of the identities of the exiles is revealed. The only testimonials in the documentary are by people whose lives are still affected by these events.

Type

video

Production companies

• TV3 - Own production

Broadcaster

TV3 - TV3

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life / Migrations

Credits / Cast

• Montserrat Besses - Director
• Lopez Pere - Journalist
• Francino Carles - Journalist

Period of events

• From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

• Spain - North - Catalonia
• France - South West
• France - South East

Original language

Catalan

Media running time

9m24

Additional information

Archive images of concentration camps in South of Francia, hospitals, boats and trains of exile people, etc