''Espoir: Sierra de Teruel'' (English title: ''Days of Hope'' or ''Man's Hope'') is a 1938–39 Spanish-French

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war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...

, directed by Boris Peskine and

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( ; ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (''Man's Fate'') (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed ...

. It was not commercially released until 1945. Malraux wrote the novel '' L'Espoir'', or ''Man's Hope'', published in 1937, which was basis for the film. The director won the 1945

Prix Louis Delluc The Louis Delluc Prize ( ) is a French film award presented annually since 1937. The award is bestowed to the Best Film and Best First Film of the year on the second week of each December. The jury is composed of 20 members, consisting of a group ...

award. The crash of a

Spanish Republican Air Force The Spanish Republican Air Force was the air arm of the Armed Forces of the Second Spanish Republic, the legally established government of Spain between 1931 and 1939. Initially divided into two branches: Military Aeronautics () and Naval Aeron ...

Potez 540 The Potez 540 was a French multi-role aircraft of the 1930s. Designed and built by Potez, it served with the French Air Force as a Aerial reconnaissance, reconnaissance bomber, also serving with the Spanish Republican Air Force during the Spanish ...

plane near Valdelinares inspired André Malraux to write the novel. Different years are given for the film's completion. The novel was published in French in 1937 and in English in 1938. The film uses war footage from 1938 and was edited, and other scenes shot, during 1938–1939. It was finished in July 1939 and shown twice in Paris, but

Francoist Spain Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death i ...

applied pressure to censor it. All known copies were destroyed during World War II. A copy was found and the film was released again in 1945. In Spain, it was banned and was not screened until 1977, after the death of

Franco Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" * Franco of Cologne (mid to late 13th cent ...

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Spanish Republican The Spanish Republic (), commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic (), was the form of democratic government in Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII. It was dissolv ...

forces fight against the better-equipped

Nationalist Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation,Anthony D. Smith, Smith, A ...

armies in the desolate

Sistema Ibérico The Iberian System is one of the major systems of mountain ranges in Spain. It consists of a vast and complex area of mostly relatively high and rugged mountain chains and massifs located in the central region of the Iberian Peninsula, but ...

mountains of the

Province of Teruel Teruel ( Catalan: ''Terol'' ) is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain. The capital is Teruel. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Z ...

in 1937.

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* Andrés Mejuto ... Captain Muñoz * Nicolás Rodríguez ... García * José Santpere/ Josep Santpere ... Commander Peña *

Julio Peña Julio Peña (18 June 1912 - 27 July 1972) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1930 to 1972. He died on July 27, 1972, aged 60 at Cortijo Blanco in Marbella, where he was resting after appearing in the film ''Horror ...

... Attignies * Pedro Codina ... Captain Schneider * José María Lado ... Peasant * José María Ovies ... Partisan * José Telmo ... González * Casimiro Hurtado ... Pilot * Manolo González ... Mayor * Juan de Dios Muñiz ... Pío * José Ramón Giner ... Partisan who brings the arms * Serafín Ferro ... Socialist pilot *José Calle ... Mayor

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* 1945 films French black-and-white films Spanish black-and-white films 1941 films Spanish Civil War films Louis Delluc Prize winners Films scored by Darius Milhaud 1940s rediscovered films French war drama films 1940s war drama films Spanish war drama films 1941 drama films 1945 drama films Rediscovered French films Rediscovered Spanish films 1940s Spanish films 1940s French films {{SpanishCivilWar-film-stub Spanish-language war drama films

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