Luis Candelas or The Bandit of Madrid

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.

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

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...

"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.