Overview
Spain 1936: Despite the victory of the Popular Front, nothing has changed for the peasants; the grandees continue to oppress them. The poor peasant son Pablo fights back and encourages the others to demand their rights. The grandees flee. Students from Madrid arrive and help the rural population to democratize. Pablo falls in love with Magdalena and learns to read and write from her. When Franco begins his bloody attack on the young republic, they defend the village together. When Magdalena dies in a bombing raid by German planes, Pablo begins to hate the Germans. However, fighting together with the International Brigades, he realizes that there are other Germans too, and that they share a common enemy.
Cast
- Edwin Marian as Pablo
- Isabell Carenato as Magdalena
- Harry Hindemith as Taga
- Uwe-Jens Pape as Carlos
- Maria Wendt as Pilar
- Curt Paulus as Jacinto
- Gert Beinemann as Pedro Bernardo
- Rolf Ludwig as Cerefino
- Harald Jopt as Lopez
- Charles Hans Vogt as Rodriguez