Spain’s Pact to Forget

Latino USA

Futuro Media and PRX

Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Filmed over six years, "The Silence of Others" reveals how survivors and their families have struggled to cope in the aftermath of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco. The film, executive produced by Pedro Almodóvar, follows the victims as they organize a groundbreaking international lawsuit and fight a “pact of forgetting” around the crimes they suffered. Survivors of the dictatorship and human rights lawyers built a case in Argentina that Spanish courts refuse to hear. Maria Hinojosa speaks about the film with its directors, Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar.

This episode originally aired in 2019.

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0:00.0	From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA.
0:14.0	I'm Maria Innojosa.
0:15.0	Today, how a lawsuit filed in Argentina
0:19.0	brings closure to victims of the Franco dictatorship in Spain.
0:27.7	On April 28th, 2019, Spain, Spain held elections to choose the national parliament,
0:39.5	which in turn voted to select a prime minister.
0:42.5	The socialist has won't have theume the remains of Francisco Franco,
1:04.1	Spain's former dictator who died in 1975, and is buried under a massive mausoleum.
1:10.4	They say Franco doesn't deserve the honor of having a major monument to his life.
1:15.7	But this pledges caused some controversy with people on the right who supported the dictator.
1:24.1	And mixed into all of this, there are also demands from victims of the Spanish dictatorship
1:29.3	to find and recover the remains of those who were killed and were buried in mass graves during Franco's 40-year rule.
1:37.3	The issue of victims' remains has been a major feature of the national conversation in Spain recently
1:47.9	and is now the topic of a documentary film.
1:51.2	Over six years, Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Almudena Carrasedo and Robert Bajar
1:56.2	have been following a movement for justice that began with a kitchen table conversation
2:01.6	and has evolved into a groundbreaking international lawsuit
2:05.6	that brought together hundreds of survivors of the dictatorship.
2:08.6	My kere you, the murder of my father.
2:11.6	My father is in the burrowed in Baezza with all the fusilas.
2:16.6	My father was one of the slaves of the Francism. The result is In Baezza, with all the fusilas that there. My father was one of the
2:18.2	clasos of Frankism.
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