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Synopsis
"Dawn of Hope" (1937) is a film made by Antonio Sau for the anarchist union the CNT and is also one of the most important social films made in Spain. Keep in mind that was filmed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the revolutionary impulse still held firm. In this respect, tells the story of John, a worker who has just become unemployed, their effort to get a new, impossible to work in a country with more than three million unemployed at the time, as it says in the film. John's wife also takes a humiliating job to feed their children. Outraged by this and seeing the conformism of the people, John ends up as a social agitator.
Félix de Pomés
Cast
Enriqueta Soler
Cast
Román González 'Chispita'
Cast
Ana María Campoy
Cast
Pilar Torres
Cast
José Sanchíz
Cast
Gregoria Millán
Cast
Juana Mansó
Cast
Modesto Cid
Cast
Salvador Arnaldo
Cast
Antonio Sau Olite
Director

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