{"id":680,"date":"2017-10-19T09:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francoontrial.playloud.org\/?page_id=680"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T10:37:18","slug":"synopsis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/en\/synopsis\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">After the success of <em>Franco\u00b4s Settlers<\/em>, their first encounter with Franco\u2019s dictatorship, filmmakers Dietmar Post and Luc\u00eda Palacios now tackle one of the most undisclosed chapters of European history: the allegedly organized extermination that took place in Spain under General Franco\u2019s fascist dictatorship between 1936 and 1975 after he established his power with the help of Germany, Italy and Portugal. To this day no one has been prosecuted for the regime\u2019s systematic atrocities; victims haven\u2019t been rehabilitated. Over 100,000 people are still missing.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">After a Spanish judge\u00b4s attempt to accuse Franco and his generals for crimes against humanity failed in 2010, Franco&#8217;s victims filed a complaint in Buenos Aires, known as &#8220;Querella Argentina&#8221;. Now for the first time, an Argentinian investigating judge, Mar\u00eda Servini, has issued 24 international arrest warrants against high-ranking representatives of the Franco dictatorship. The filmmakers accompany her as she tries to initiate court proceedings against the accused, proving that a reappraisal of Spain\u2019s darkest chapter is long overdue.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Franco on Trial<\/em> debates specific crime cases presented in the Argentinean Lawsuit. By interweaving never-before-seen archival material with current footage and by delivering a historical contextualization of each case the film itself demonstrates new evidence. In one of the key scenes, the film creates a sense of the impending lawsuit&#8217;s actuality when one of the suspected perpetrators is confronted directly with the accusations by the plaintiff, the investigating judge and the plaintiff&#8217;s lawyer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The film has been in the works for over 8 years. During that time the directors managed to gain access to people from both sides of the conflict, including the daughter of a general in the 1936 coup who still counts a silver-framed portrait and personal present of German Nazi-leader Hermann Goering among her possessions.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><em>Franco on Trial<\/em> reveals an almost forgotten part of 20th century European history and raises the question: Will the so-called \u201cArgentinian Complaint\u201d become a Spanish Nuremberg?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the success of Franco\u00b4s Settlers, their first encounter with Franco\u2019s dictatorship, filmmakers Dietmar Post and Luc\u00eda Palacios now tackle one of the most undisclosed chapters of European history: the allegedly organized extermination that took place in Spain under General Franco\u2019s fascist dictatorship between 1936 and 1975 after he established his power with the help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-center.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playloud.org\/francoontrial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}