[van-announce] This Thursday - Radical Film Night!

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Spartacus Radical Film Nights presents Libertarias!

7:30PM – Thursday, September 27, 2012

684 East Hastings Street

Libertarias is a Spanish historical drama made in 1996. It was written and
directed by Vicente Aranda.

In 1936, Maria (Ariadna Gil), a young nun is recruited by Pilar (Ana
Belén), a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset
of the Spanish Civil War. Guided by the older woman, Maria is exposed to
the realities of war and revolution, and comes to question her former,
sheltered life.

This big-budget movie is set in 1936 in Barcelona in the midst of the
Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War.1 Militia women Pilar (Ana Belen)
and Floren (Victoria Abril) are joined by former prostitute Charo (Loles
Leon) and former nun Maria (Ariadna Gil). The film opens with scenes of
working class militants demolishing and burning religious icons, as they
shout "down with Capitalism!" and "long live the libertarian revolution!"
While fully immersed in the overall enthusiasm of revolutionary Spain,
Pilar and friends find themselves fighting against deep gender inequality
which complicates their efforts in the war against Francisco Franco's
Nationalist/Fascist/Catholic forces. They encounter resistance even within
their own "Free Women" (Mujeres Libres) organization as one woman (that
resembles Federica Montseny) tries to persuade them to stay and work in
defense factories, while men try to convince them to go work as cooks, not
front-line soldiers.

More info at www.spartacusbooks.net


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Peter Alexander Bazovsk�
e-mail: peterb at resist.ca
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"Frequently the only possible answer is a critique of the
question and the only solution is to negate the question."
Grundrisse, "The Chapter on Money"
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