You are warmly invited to the UK premiere of the newly restored film Sierra de Teruel followed by a discussion. This is an unprecedented opportunity to watch this fully restored, historic 1938–1939 Spanish-French war film directed by French writer André Malraux and Boris Peskine with a screenplay co-written by Malraux and Mexican-Spanish novelist Max Aub. The film is based on Malraux’s own 1937 novel L’Espoir (Man’s Hope), inspired by his real-life experience as commander of a volunteer air squadron during the Spanish Civil War.
Programme
14.00 Welcome
Damian Catani with Alfia Nakipbekova Birkbeck, University of London
14.05 Anne Malraux
Restoring André Malraux’s Sierra de Teruel
14.15 Alfia Nakipbekova
Darius Milhaud’s music for Sierra de Teruel
14.30 Screening of Sierra de Teruel (Days of Hope), 1938
16.30 Discussion