Josep
La experiencia de los refugiados españoles en Francia, tras la Guerra Civil Española
Amazon Prime Video
An international production about the Catalan cartoonist and revolutionary Josep Bartolí, directed by the French illustrator and cartoonist Aurel (Aurélien Froment).
Winner of the French César award for Best Animated Film and European Film Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
The film is a tribute to the legacy of the Catalan artist, who like thousands of other refugees from the Spanish Civil War in 1939, experienced appalling conditions, starvation and ill-treatment in French concentration camps.
Amongs the cruelty and desperation, Bartolí finds a way to deal with the extreme situation through the small but life-saving gesture of a gentle French gendarme: pen and paper. With these, Bartolí records the ominous scenes that surround him through Goya-esque drawings that will one day be shown to future generations.
With some horrifying experiences setting the early black and white grim background, the film also shows the transition to a more promising future of colourful freedom.
The film features popular Catalan/French actor Sergi López as Josep Bartolí and flamenco artist Sílvia Pérez Cruz, voicing Frida Kahlo, with whom Bartolí had an affair. She also sings the main theme in the soundtrack.
The film is in French, Catalan and Spanish with English subtitles and it is currently included in Amazon Prime Video.
Futuras madres del mundo
Letra: Miguel Hernández (poeta español)
Voz: Sílvia Pérez Cruz
