Additional information for The Mexican Suitcase, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 2, 2011. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. The Mexican Suitcase has a total running time of 86 minutes.
86min
July , 2011
Czech Republic
September 30, 2011
France
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The story of three lost boxes known as the Mexican Suitcase that were recovered in 2007. The boxes, misplaced in the chaos at the start of WWII, contained many of the Spanish Civil War ... See full summary
From Mallerich Films-Paco Poch (www.pacopoch.cat):The Mexican Suitcase tells the story of three lost boxes, found in a closet in Mexico City in 2007, that disappeared in the chaos in Europe at the beginning of World War II. Contained in the suitcase were 4,500 unique negatives, the work of three friends, who met in Paris between 1936 and 1937, who would become some of the finest photojournalists of their time; exiled from their respective countries, Germany, Poland and Hungary. They were radicals who understood the dangers of fascism. They traveled to Spain together to fight fascism with their cameras. They were Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour and Gerda Taro.Throughout the film we learn through their images the story of the war and the exile, the horrors of the French camps on the beaches of southern France where thousands of Spaniards perished. We hear the story of how Mexico pledged its total support to the Republic in exile. The suitcase, a metaphor, takes us through the narrative with the voices and memories of survivors and of the subsequent generation of exiles living in Spain, France and Mexico. This is a film about photographs taken in the past (1937 to 1939) recovered in our present (2007). It is a film about seeing how we look and understand the past; how we ignore and bury what we prefer to turn away from; the role and the power of photography in this context.
Trisha Ziff
Director(s)
Diane Bardinet
Trisha Ziff
Writer(s)
Víctor Cavaller
co-producer
Andrés Luque
co-producer
Michael Nyman
co-producer
Eamon O'Farrill
producer
Paco Poch
producer
Trisha Ziff
producer
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The Mexican Suitcase
Director(s)
Trisha Ziff
Writer(s)
co-producer
Andrés Luque
co-producer
Michael Nyman
co-producer
Eamon O'Farrill
producer
Paco Poch
producer
Trisha Ziff
producer
Producer(s)
This film does not have a selected cast.
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