Plot Summary:1944. In a Spain impoverished and almost annihilated by the Civil War, Manuela and Candela are two completely different sisters who live in a little town of the deep Galicia. Meanwhile Manuela just wanna live in peace and heal to her sick and little daughter Alba, her younger sister Candela steals little amounts of the wolfram (a mineral used in Second World War for tanks and fire weapons) she extracts in a mine to shell it in the black market, trying to get money. In addition, she helps Bryan, an English agent of British Intelligence living secretly in the town, in an attempt to close the mine used by the Nazis with General Franco's permission, to move all wolfram they can reunite to Germany, in order to expand their weaponry. Reluctant, Manuela collaborates with Candela to contact a former guerrilla called Miguel Peña to organize the mine workers (all them Franco's prisoners from the Civil War, condemned to penal servitude to avoid being executed) to cave a secret tunnel to steal ...
共和万岁!你们这些混蛋
就像看铁道游击队一样
反映弗朗哥时期的西班牙内战的片子都很不错,像“放逐”“黑色面包”“潘神的迷宫”“伤心小号曲”等等,都有一个共性,就是不直接描写战争的残酷,而从第三者的视角比如儿童、士兵、普通人等,用他们生活所遭受的摧残反映战争的荒谬与恐怖。