Land and Freedom

"Land and Freedom" is a close-up look by script writer Jim Allen and director Ken Loach on the drama of the Spanish Civil War, and how it played out among the nameless little guys, the fighters in the trenches. The idealists, the idealogues, the romantics, the bored, who traveled from other countries to fight for Spain against Franco's fascist regime, the peasants of Aragon who speak words foreign to them, such as "collectivisation of the land", their loves, their deaths, their disillusionments-it's all there. (official distributor synopsis)