Guernica

Picasso's most famous work bears witness to the atrocities of the Spanish civil war and fascism.

6.1

31 votes

1951

13m

Documentary

War

Overview

Alain Resnais & Robert Hessen use the famous Picasso mural "Guernica" in combination with newspaper headlines in an anti-war cry against the Spanish Civil War. Narration by Jacques Pruvost highlights the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, followed by a poem by Paul Eluard read by María Casares to a discordant score by Guy Bernard.

Directed by Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens