
The amazing story of Cifesa, a mythical film production company founded in Valencia by the Casanova family that managed to dominate the box office during the turbulent times of the Second Spanish Republic, the carnage of the Civil War and the hardships of the long post-war period and Franco's dictatorship — and survive until the sixties, when Spain was timidly beginning to change.

Antonio Esquivias
Self - Narrator (voice)
Emeterio Díez Puertas
Self - Film Historian
Luis Casanova Iranzo
Self - V. Casanova's Nephew
José Luis Castro de Paz
Self - Film Scholar
Virginia Guarinos
Self - Film Scholar
Jaime Hernández de la Torre
Self - Painter
Alfonso Gil
Self - Historian
Luis Fernández Gimeno
Self - Fallero
Vicente Sánchez Biosca
Self - Film Scholar
Fátima Gil Gascón
Self - Scholar
Pablo León Aguinaga
Self - Historian

Fernando Fernández de Córdoba
Self - Actor (voice) (archive footage)

Songs for After a War
Songs for After a War

Far from the Trees
Far from the Trees

El amanecer de una nueva era en España
El amanecer de una nueva era en España

Land Without Bread
Land Without Bread

La espada negra
La espada negra

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

The Diary of a Projectionist
The Diary of a Projectionist

Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams

Casablanca revisitada
Casablanca revisitada

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary
Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary

Spain
Spain

A Cooler Climate
A Cooler Climate