CANTARES DE UNA REVOLUCIÓN

Ramón Lluís Bande

Spain 80 min. min Catalan premiere

Synopsis

Songs, words, places. Nacho Vegas visits some of the most significant events and sites of the insurrection led by Asturian workers and peasants in October of 1934, the last proletarian revolution in Europe, and he does it with popular music as his map, and the words of Belarmino Tomás, President of the Third Revolutionary Committee, as his compass.

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Ramón Lluís Bande

Asturian filmmaker and writer. He’s a director of documentary and feature films. Besides, he has directed video clips for Nacho Vegas, Manta Ray, Mus, Viva Las Vegas or Aroah, amongst others. Several of his previous films have been screened at the D’A.

Filmography: Retaguardia (2024, D'A 2025), Contracampos (short film, 2022, D'A 2023), Cow Lowing Among Ruins (2020, D'A 2021), Cantares de una revolución (2018, D'A 2019), Hotel Asturies (mid-length film, 2019), Escoréu, 24 d'Avientu de 1937 (2017, D’A 2018), Aún me quedan balas para dibujar (short film, 2017, D’A 2018), Vida vaquera (2016, D’A 2017), El nome de los árboles (2015, D'A 2016), Here and in Order Time (2014), Llar (co-directed, 2014), Blood (short film, 2010), La carta de Bárbara (2007), El paisano: un retratu colectivu (2005), De la Fuente (mid-length film, 2004), Estratexa (short film, 2003), Divina lluz (2003), El fulgor (2002), Malu (short film, 1999)

Ramón Lluís Bande

Film information

Original Title: Songs of a revolution
Director: Ramón Lluís Bande
Script: Ramón Lluís Bande
With: Nacho Vegas, Benjamín Gutiérrez, Rafael Fernández Tomás
Contact: De la Piedra Producciones
Country: Spain
Year: 2018
Format: DCP
Length: 80 min. min
Language: Spanish, Asturian
Subtitles: English
Edition: 2019

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