The Man Who Was There

DocumentaryHistory

User Score3 votes

60%6.0/10

Release2013→

Runtime0H 30M

LanguageSpanish

StatusReleased

Synopsis

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.

Principal Cast8

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

Full Cast & Crew (29)

Media3

Backdrops

Director

Luis Felipe Torrente

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Keywords

world war iispanish civil war (1936-39)biography1940sspanish second republic (1931-39)1930swar journalismportrait of an artistexiled spanish republicanshort film