REGIE / Directed by: Karin Helml und Hermann Peseckas
BUCH / Script: Karin Helml, Hermann Peseckas
KAMERA / Cinematography: Hermann Peseckas
PRODUKTION / Production: Helml/ Peseckas (produced at Studio West)
DARSTELLER / Cast: Hans Landauer, Ferdinand Hackl, Gert Hoffmann, Ernst Kuntschik, Mathias Arranz, Manuel García
FÖRDERUNGEN / Supported by: BKA, Land Salzburg, Stadt Salzburg, Stadt Wien, Land Niederösterreich / Federal Chancellery, Salzburg State Government, Salzburg City Government, Vienna City Government, State Government of Lower Austria
TECHNISCHE DATEN / Technical Credits: Dokumentarfilm DVCam, 83 min. / documentary, DVCam, German, Spanish with English subtitles, 83 min
JAHR / Year A 2006
SPRACHE / Original Version: Deutsch, Spanisch mit dt. und sp. UT, English and French subtitles available

SUMMARY:
1936 -1939. Half of Europe is lost to fascism, yet the Spanish Republic resists Franco's military revolt. Based on personal remarks and mainly private photographs the protagonists of the film describe their experiences in the Spanish Civil War and their odyssey through Europe, which came as a consequence of the war.
All six of them fought on the Republican side. They were very young and had enrolled as volunteers to fight fascism in Spain. Among them are four Austrians with social democratic roots, already stamped by the Austro-fascist dictatorship since 1934. Illegaly and on sometimes adventurous tracks they went to Spain in order to join the International Brigades and to defeat fascism, which had already taken half of Europe. The both Spanish protagonists witnessed the military coup under Franco in July 1936 when they were still young men and joined the militias. Their fates and ways became more and more similar after the loss of the war in 1939 and their flight across the French border. Together with hundreds of thousands republican-minded Spaniards (men, women, children and defeated soldiers) they arrived in detention camps in Southern France – behind barbed wire. From there an odyssey began through French prisoner and labor camps lasting for years and ending with deportation to Nazi Germany.