The Grass Dwellers
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The Grass Dwellers

The memory of a hidden landscape.

0.0 / 10 2022 12mNR Spanish
DocumentaryDramaHistoryWar

Storyline

Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.

What People Are Saying

0.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Pablo Pagán Méndez Kodiak's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. The Grass Dwellers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker