National Library, Madrid

The round table will be attended by Ángeles Egido, professor of Contemporary History at the UNED and curator of the exhibition Azaña: intellectual and statesman. At 80 years of his death in exile; Jesús Cañete, doctor in Philology and also curator of the exhibition; Marifé Santiago, tenured professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and José Antonio Gómez Municio, journalist specializing in cultural affairs, writer and cultural manager.

In this session, in addition to contextualizing some of the audiovisual testimonies that are part of the exhibition of the National Library of Spain, fragments of films such as the mythical Land of Spain (1937), by Joris Ivens, with screenplay and locution by Ernest Hemingway, or the documentary Spain, 1936 (1937), created by the Republic itself with archive material, and screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Pierre Unik. In addition, to this panorama of the time there are some closer images in time, a fragment of the interview starring in 1985 by Azaña’s wife, Dolores Rivas Cherif, in the program of Radiotelevisión Española Mujeres for a time.

This activity is part of the monographic program organized by the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory, through the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española, and together with public and private organizations in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death of Manuel Azaña in exile.