Movie·2022·0h 12m

The Grass Dwellers

The memory of a hidden landscape.

Country

Spain

Language

Spanish

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The Story

Original title: Los habitantes del pasto

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.

Producer

Pablo Pagán Méndez Kodiak, Mª Carmen L. Herrera

Editor

Pablo Pagán Méndez Kodiak

Themes

spanish civil war (1936-39)lonelinessfamilyhuman rightsdeathportraitculturenon violentsocial issuesdebutpersonal diaryexperimental

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