She smuggled a recorder in her bag. What came out broke silence forever.
Documentary in which ten republican women remember their time in Franco's prisons. “Some put wedges in her nails; my sister-in-law has currents on her fingers and nipples; some have been raped”; “Since they hit first and then ask questions, they hit me.” “Baby, they have given us the death penalty. I told him: but, Virtudes, they will commute you!". These are some of the testimonies of ten Republican women in Franco's prisons that Tomasa Cuevas, a former member of the Communist Party, collected on an old recorder hidden in her bag so that they would not be lost in oblivion.
Direction
Montes Salguero lets silence and suffering speak without spectacle.
Editing
Fragments of hidden tape woven into urgent, present-tense testimony.
Director
Jorge J. Montes Salguero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's 1977 Amnesty Law ('Pact of Forgetting') made this film's very existence an act of political resistance.
Tomasa Cuevas's hidden recordings became foundational texts for recovering women's voices from the Franco era.
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