Just a heads up that a new documentary on Catalonian independence is on Netflix. According to the press release, the filmmakers take no sides but try to show how the independence movement and vote affects not just Catalonia but the world.
When we visited Barcelona a few years ago it was a hot topic and the film looks interesting.
andrew.reis - Last Thursday, the BBC radio program "From Our Own Correspondent" had an interesting segment on the Swiss Maternity near Elne & Elizabeth Eibenitz, mother of 600 children. Wow, 500,000 refugees from Franco going to southern France.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b0bktycw from 11:30 to 17:30 (6 minutes)
also found an old documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm_wPpZgBP8
also https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1022347-d3227615-Reviews-Maternite_Suisse-Elne_Pyrenees_Orientales_Occitanie.html
Andrew, this goes far beyond Franco.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Catalonia
You can filter all Netflix for just Spanish films -
https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/58741
other Netflix filter codes here: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/the-netflix-id-bible-every-category-on-netflix/
Once you've watched this documentary, you want to check this one out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXrYBUAcYUo
Another Spanish movie streaming on Netflix right now is The Photographer of Mauthausen a story of how a Catalan prisoner(and photographer) at the Mauthausen concentration camp hid the negatives of the Nazi photos documenting the camp. I never knew that the Germans interred Spanish communists in their camps. It's a quite brutal film, worse then Schindler's List as far as atrocities. I think it was based on a true story. It's in Spanish but has English subtitles.
Anyone travelling through Spain is likely struck by how sparse it is between the major cities. Here's two links to the "Lapland of Spain".
A BBC podcast "Empty Spain and the Caravans of Love"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswf69
The Caravans of Women - or Caravans of Love as they are known - began as a response to Spain’s epic story of rural depopulation. More than half the country is at risk, and in nearly 600 municipalities there isn’t one resident under the age of 10. And as Linda Pressly finds out, there are many initiatives now to reverse the decline of the Spanish countryside, including a movement of young people – the "neo-rurales" – who have begun to occupy abandoned villages.
also a recent NY Times article
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/vanishing-spanish-village-pins-hopes-on-in-its-roman-past/
or (same story)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/world/europe/driebes-vanishing-spanish-village.html
Overall, Spain’s national statistics show that more than half the country’s municipalities are at risk of ceasing to exist, because they have already fallen below the threshold of 1,000 inhabitants.
What is the title?
