Film Archive

The Mexican Suitcase

Documentary Films - Out of Competition 2011 / La maleta Mexicana / Mexico, Spain 2011

A film which tells the story of the discovery of a suitcase containing 4,500 negatives taken by famous photographers such as Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim” Seymour, who here presented their personal testimonies of the different faces of the civil war in Spain. Three story lines depict the journey of the negatives from France to Mexico and trace the role Mexico played in the civil war and its significance for refugees from Spain, whose descendants subsequently became Mexican citizens. The film also examines the attitude of today’s young generation of Spaniards towards the fate of their ancestors who lost their lives in the civil war.

Synopsis

A film which tells the story of the discovery of a suitcase containing 4,500 negatives taken by famous photographers such as Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim” Seymour, who presented their personal testimonies of the different faces of the civil war in Spain. Three story lines depict the journey of the negatives from France to Mexico and trace the role Mexico played in the civil war and its significance for refugees from Spain, whose descendants subsequently became Mexican citizens. The film also examines the attitude of today’s young generation of Spaniards towards the fate of their ancestors who lost their lives in the civil war.

About the film

90 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Trisha Ziff / Screenplay Trisha Ziff / Dir. of Photography Claudio Rocha / Music Michael Nyman, Gerard Pastor / Editor Luis López, Bernat Aragonés / Producer Eamon O’Farrill, Trisha Ziff, Paco Poch / Production Mallerich Films, 212 Berlin / Contact Mallerich Films Paco Poch

Contacts

Mallerich Films Paco Poch
Passeig Mare de Déu del Coll, 30, local, 08023, Barcelona
Spain
Phone: +34 932 033 025
Fax: +34 932 053 420
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Víctor Cavaller
Producer

Paco Poch
Co-producer, Journalist