Andrés Linares

The Way They Were is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas

The haunting spirit of a woman comes to the call of the participants in a séance.

Based on the life of Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), president of the PCE. The film is a documentary, prepared over three years with archive material from Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Havana, Yugoslavia and Basque and Spanish film libraries.

A tealure length documentary on tt te so calted *Slntel Case', a contlict which has gone on tor several years but which is known above atl tor the decisión ol 1.800 workers to instan themsotves tn the (inancml heart ol Madrid, El Paseo do la Castellana, and sel up the ~Camp oi Hopo", which they kept going tor 6 months as a means ol pressure and protest This can be consldered as the ~swan song' ot a long tradition ol large-scale strikes and workers' movements and ot a certain way ot understanding the class struggle Using material from archives and interviews with difiereni peopte ranging trom ministers to trade unionista, an attempt has been made to grve an accurate ptcture ot the "Sintel Case’ and the repercussions at a social, trade unión and polittcal level.