Characters & Themes
Guernica (1951) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1951 · 13 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens
- Starring
- María Casares, Jacques Pruvost
Alain Resnais and Robert Hessen combine Picasso’s iconic mural “Guernica” with period newspaper headlines, creating a stark anti‑war statement about the Spanish Civil War. Jacques Pruvost narrates the April 1937 bombing, after which María Casares recites Paul Eluard’s poem over Guy Bernard’s discordant score.
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