Basilio Martín Patino

Basilio Martín Patino

1930-10-29
86 (2017-08-13)
Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Basilio Martín Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, October 29, 1930-Madrid, August 13, 2017) was a Spanish film director, known for the film Nueve cartas a Berta (1965) and for three of his documentaries, Canciones para después de una guerra (1971), Queridísimos verdugos (1973) and Caudillo (1974).

Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Basilio Martín Patino (Lumbrales, Salamanca, October 29, 1930-Madrid, August 13, 2017) was a Spanish film director, known for the film Nueve cartas a Berta (1965) and for three of his documentaries, Canciones para después de una guerra (1971), Queridísimos verdugos (1973) and Caudillo (1974).

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Dearest Executioners 1977 (7.7)

This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.
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Songs for After a War 1976 (6.5)

A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular culture: songs, newspapers and magazines, movies and newsreels.
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Nine Letters to Berta 1966 (7.2)

Lorenzo is a young man returns to Spain after spending some time in England, where he fell in love with Berta, the daughter of Spanish immigrants. Lorenzo writes several letters to her trying to convey the beauty of the world her parents left behind.