

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Ian Hart
David Carr
Lead
Rosana Pastor
Blanca

Frédéric Pierrot
Bernard

Icíar Bollaín
Maite

Tom Gilroy
Lawrence

Angela Clarke
Kitty
Eoin McCarthy
Connor

Suzanne Maddock
Kim
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