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This biographic document recounts the odyssey of a mop and a stalker who was accused in the UGT mason and became revolutionary and man of action of the CNT. It is the life of the mason who commanded the Fourth Army in the Civil War and defeated Mussolini's generals at the Battle of Guadalajara. Losing the war earned him 3 years of concentration camps and prisons in the French territories in North Africa, and was finally delivered to the Spanish authorities, who condemned him to death. After saved from condemnation, Mera was exiled to France, where he never stopped fighting to end Franco.
Figueres Valenti tells the exegesis of the film-paper on the figure of the great fighter Republican:
"The feature film project starts when we meet in Paris Imbernón Nardo and teaches us a silver fork that had been jealously guarded since his father gave him. The holder had an interesting story: when the Aga Khan III and Rita Hayworth iban with his limousine by the Bois de Boulogne were assaulted by several cars that they blocked the way. The assailants left them with nothing, no costumes, jewelery and cutlery. That robbery worthy of being in a film script, was actually "a recovery "and the masked men from the" Action groups of the CNT. "It was 1949. Later the fork came into the hands of the family of Nardo, long anarchist tradition, jokingly boasted that eat like the rich with that covered".
The story aroused our curiosity, who were these "appropriators"? Was Robin Hood or simple modern assailants of roads?
Nardo was shelling us the story of "the men of the CNT", the how, the why, the facts and anecdotes of those who lost the Civil War and were victims of all totalitarian regimes, those who lived through the eternal hope of the return to Spain, but also the struggle and the death of his "peers." Appeared before our eyes underground world and almost extinct exile kept fresh in memory, despite the time... and time.
We were discovering the world of old anarchists, the fighters of "La Idea", the "affinity groups". They were men and women who had an ideal to strive for and did so with its own language. "The Idea," as known in the anarchist movement to the concept of social justice and freedom, had entered his life and never to leave him.
The libertarian tradition stretches back in time to the S. XIX and XXI have continued to. It is true that their survival is irregular and ends truly critical. But there was a window of time and space in the twentieth century, in which everything could be, a crack in the anarchist ideas that might have a chance: The year was 1936 and the place, Spain. Some called it "The Spanish Civil War, "anarchists "The Spanish Revolution."
Of all those "men of the CNT", of all partners, especially captivated us the story of Cipriano Mera. With more than humble origin in the Madrid district of Tetuan,-then called "the victories" - Mera was a mason, a trade unionist, a Fellow of the CNT and when the time required it, a lieutenant colonel of great instinct. After the defeat and exile, but his job as a bricklayer, but committed militancy from the "outside" and an obsession to kill the dictator. Mera was a partner as a militant few to none. He joined without hesitation in the groups of youths libertarian to devise plans for the assassination and took to the barricades in the streets in May '68. Never stopped believing in the viability of libertarian ideas that were inevitable as a matter of common sense. The irony of history willed that died 20 days before Franco. Cipriano did not win every war, but fought in every battle.
That was Cipriano Mera and that was the mysterious world of the old anarchist. A world where the need for a "partner" was a thing of all. They had been so close to the revolution, to believe it was a matter of seeing and acting accordingly. For older anarchists did not make sense to choose between dying standing or live on your knees, they knew that another world is possible, you could have the whole. The choice, of course, was "living pie".
A unique document in a pleasant way to see another version of the history of Spain, which peaked "the other half" of its population struggling to keep the Republican government, legally recognized in the polls, but after losing the war, was silenced for over forty years.
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