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Armand Guerra

Born February 4, 1886 · Lliria, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain

Died March 10, 1939 · aged 53

José Estívalis Cabo, más conocido por sus pseudónimos Armand Guerra y José Silavitse, director de cine, escritor y periodista español, de ideología anarquista. De padres campesinos, fue monaguillo e ingresó en un seminario, que abandonó transformándose en anticlerical. Trabajó como tipógrafo en Valencia y participó en huelgas de la CNT. Encarcelado, huyó a Francia y a Suiza y contactó con círculo…

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Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid

Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid · 1926

Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid

Flesh of the Beast

Flesh of the Beast · 1936

Flesh of the Beast

Pablo is a boxer married to Aurora, a variety show singer. One day, after walking through the Retiro Park and meeting a lion tamer and his beautiful assistant, he returns home and catches Aurora with her lover. Heartbroken, Pablo goes to see the lion tamer's show...

The Commune

The Commune · 1914

"La Commune" ( The Commune ) (1914) is a good example of Herr Guerra's peculiarities. It was produced by "Cinéma Du Peuple" ( People's Cinema ), a film cooperative supported by workers, and depicts the beginnings of the Commune of Paris, that working class uprising that briefly ruled and caused a mess during two months in the city of Paris in the year of 1871.

Miseries of the Needle

Miseries of the Needle · 1914

Miseries of the Needle

The central story of a young woman driven to suicide by the cares of earning piecework money to support her child.

The Old Docker

The Old Docker · 1914

MovieDramaHistory

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader. As in the Dreyfus Affair, a false dossier had been used to convict Durand. Jaurès argued that the memory of the Dreyfus Affair saved Durand, calling the case the working class’s Dreyfus Affair.

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Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid

Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid · 1926

Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid

Director

Flesh of the Beast

Flesh of the Beast · 1936

Flesh of the Beast

Pablo is a boxer married to Aurora, a variety show singer. One day, after walking through the Retiro Park and meeting a lion tamer and his beautiful assistant, he returns home and catches Aurora with her lover. Heartbroken, Pablo goes to see the lion tamer's show...

Writer

The Commune

The Commune · 1914

"La Commune" ( The Commune ) (1914) is a good example of Herr Guerra's peculiarities. It was produced by "Cinéma Du Peuple" ( People's Cinema ), a film cooperative supported by workers, and depicts the beginnings of the Commune of Paris, that working class uprising that briefly ruled and caused a mess during two months in the city of Paris in the year of 1871.

Director

Miseries of the Needle

Miseries of the Needle · 1914

Miseries of the Needle

The central story of a young woman driven to suicide by the cares of earning piecework money to support her child.

Director

The Old Docker

The Old Docker · 1914

MovieDramaHistory

A re-enactment of the Jules Durand case. In 1910, Jean Jaurès [leader of the French socialist movement] took the lead in defending a working-class coal miner, Jules Durand, accused of complicity in and condemned to death for the murder of a labor leader. As in the Dreyfus Affair, a false dossier had been used to convict Durand. Jaurès argued that the memory of the Dreyfus Affair saved Durand, calling the case the working class’s Dreyfus Affair.

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