The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise
In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that supported anti-Franco resistance. As a result of their work, they were prosecuted and their recordings were censored. Sixty years later, and guided by Emilio Jona, aged 92, the last living member of that group of travellers, we recover the unpublished recordings and reconstruct the journey, today, across an emotional and political landscape, regaining historical memories through these songs, as relevant today as they were then.
- Year: 2024
- Country: Spain, France, Italy
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Boogaloo Films, Les Films de l’œil sauvage, Graffiti Doc, Escarlata Estudios
- Keyword: resistance, travel, folklore, spanish music, traditional music, spanish history, ethnomusicology, traditional culture, political documentary, music documentary, song, memories, observational documentary, traditional values, music, artist collective
- Director: Pablo Gil Rituerto
- Cast: Emilio Jona, Artur Blasco, Asunción Carandell, Maria Arnal, Lionello Gennero, Nacho Vegas
