Libertarias
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Music director Jose Nieto | 7/10 Genre Drama, History, War Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2 October 1996 (Spain) Writer Vicente Aranda (screenplay), Vicente Aranda (story), Jose Luis Guarner (story), Roman Gubern (story), Antonio Rabinad Screenplay Vicente Aranda, Antonio Rabinad Cast Similar movies Directed by Vicente Aranda, Anarchism movies, Spanish Civil War movies |
Libertarias trailer
Libertarias (English: Libertarians) is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and directed by Vicente Aranda.
Contents
- Libertarias trailer
- libertarias introduction a las barricadas
- Plot summary
- Cast and characters
- Reception
- References

In 1936, Maria (Ariadna Gil), a young nun is recruited by Pilar (Ana Belén), a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Guided by the older woman, Maria is exposed to the realities of war and revolution, and comes to question her former, sheltered life.

libertarias introduction a las barricadas
Plot summary

The movie is set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War. Militia women Pilar (Ana Belen) and Floren (Victoria Abril) are joined by former prostitute Charo (Loles Leon) and former nun Maria (Ariadna Gil). The film opens with scenes of working class militants demolishing and burning religious icons, as they shout "down with Capitalism!" and "long live the libertarian revolution!"

While fully immersed in the overall enthusiasm of revolutionary Spain, Pilar and friends find themselves fighting against deep gender inequality which complicates their efforts in the war against Francisco Franco's Nationalist/Fascist/Catholic forces. They encounter resistance even within their own "Free Women" (Mujeres Libres) organization as one woman (that resembles Federica Montseny) tries to persuade them to stay and work in defense factories, while men try to convince them to go work as cooks, not front-line soldiers.
Cast and characters

Reception
Time Out stated that the movie "deserves praise for its feminist perspective on the course of the 1936-7 revolution, when women's liberation was a logical, if hardly well-recognised, constituent of the libertarian ideals that the Spanish working class rose up to assert."
References
Libertarias WikipediaLibertarias IMDb Libertarias themoviedb.org