Land and Freedom

15 yrs 109 minutes • 1995 • 7.5

Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism and Franco in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters. They remain in Barcelona and end up fighting other anti-fascist groups. David is disappointed and decides to go back to his old band. The film won the film critics' prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995.