Raza

Raza (1942)

The film Franco tried to destroy — his own Spanish Civil War epic!

The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)

Date of release
1942-01-30
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama, History, War
Director
José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

Casting

Interesting facts

Raza is a 1942 Spanish war film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, and used as propaganda by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to support his regime and against the supporters of the deposed Second Spanish Republic. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Franco himself under the pseudonym of "Jaime de Andrade."

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