Far from the Trees (1972)

Original title

Lejos de los árboles

Directed by

Jacint Esteva Grewe

Genre

documentary film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Spanish documentary travels through impoverished rural areas of Spain in the 1960s. It shows the harsh living conditions that contrast with the official image of a modernizing nation under Franco.

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What happens

Far from the Trees (Spanish: Lejos de los árboles) is a documentary film by Spanish artist and director Jacinto Esteva Grew. Shot in 1963, it was held up for nine years before its release in 1972. A documentary told as a travelogue and intent on exposing the intense poverty of areas of Spain outside of the touristic eye, Far from the Trees is considered by some a successor to Luis Buñuel's Land Without Bread. As a political statement, the film is a protest to the image of a newly modernized Spain being promoted by Franco. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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