How do Spanish people deal with Franco and the dark past? | Letters to Andalusia (3/6)
43Until his death in 1975, Francisco Franco ruled Spain with an iron hand. How do Spanish people from Andalusia deal with the dark past? Have Spanish people processed the dark past already or is Franco still alive in the people´s mind? Has the past left its traces in the region of Andalusia?
A year ago, Stef and his family still lived in Nicaragua, in a quiet area of the pleasant village of Masaya. But his street turned into a war zone when the country went into a deep crisis and President Daniel Ortega cracked down the protests. Stef searched for a place to stay and ended up with his wife and children in Andalusia. To find his way and get to know this part of Spain better, in this six-part series he writes letters to the inhabitants. Stef discovers Andalusia on the basis of those letters, but parallel to this story you follow his personal situation, which of course is strongly influenced by the crisis in Nicaragua.
On November 20, 1975 dictator Franco died. This is a very important date in Spain. The dark past does not seem to have been processed yet, because much of what happened was kept silent for years. The stories that Stef picks up remind him a lot of the dictatorship in Nicaragua. The repression, the division it evokes. Because when it comes to Franco, the whole of Spain seems to be messed up again.
Original title: de tentakels van Franco – brieven aan andalusië (3/6)
September 2019
Director & Presentation: Stef Biemans
Research & Production: Barbara Smit
Edit: Pelle Asselbergs & Stef Biemans
Camera: Niels van Koevorden, Joost van Herwijnen
Sound: Tim van Peppen, Simone Galavazi, Jillis
Commissioning Editors: Joyce Daamen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Audio post-processing: Tim van Peppen
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Color correction: Gerhard van der Beek
Production: vpro Nicole Frints
Subtitling: Daniel Naamani
Communication vpro: Bert Bentsink
Online Editors: Elmar Veerman
Thanks to: Roel van Broekhoven
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