Raza

In the early 40s, Franco looked at Hitler or Mussolini as his guides... he wanted to achieve the same that his allies during the Spanish civil war have attained in their own countries. Franco also wanted his own Riefenstahl-like propaganda. So this film tries to be that, filled with the distorted and Manichean view of reality that was the rule in Spain under Franco's rule. The film has some historical interest, not for historical facts, but for the people interested in fascist propaganda during the 40s. It might shed some light into the simple-minded view of the world of the Spanish dictator, who was responsible for the script. The facts shown here are post war half-trues and lies, typical "history written by the victors"

I had to watch it for a class project and it's possibly the worst movie 've ever watched (and i've watched awful things) technically it doesn't worth a s*** and the plot is a "version" of Franco's life, totally and absolutely fascist, from the beginning to the end. You could think that it would be interesting from the historical point of view, but it's only a one side version of the history, and we've seen too much of that side during 40 years, i don't agree with that version at all but for disgrace, in Spain, some people still thinks like that, and tries to make everyone to think this. And if not, well you can imaging how many people had to go out of the country with Franco, so, would you like to had to do that? what would you do if your brother makes you to travel to another country just because you have a different point of view?? so if you want to take a siesta, or a headache, watch it. but please, DON'T Believe IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you ever seen a Commmunist movie? Have you ever seen a Nazi movie? If you say "yes" for one of this questions, then you know what you will watch if you rent or buy "RAZA". The movie was directed by the impersonal director of the Franco´s fascist and dictatorial regime Sainz de Heredia, who was cousin of one of the most important ideological men of the only legal party in those times: Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera. The movie is glorify tale about military men against democratic men in Spanish Civil War times. If you don´t know the result of that war: Franco won the war with Hitler´s help, and wrote this movie in 1940 when he was Dictator in chief in Spain. The movie is so bad, that you laugh a lot in some scenes: The Father of the protagonists speaking about death in battlefield: "It´s a honor!! It´s wonderful die for your country!!". The Father, later, dies fighting against United States of America... and dies with a big smile in his face. All a movie of fascist glorification: The democratics are portrayed like bad people, that kill the priests, and steals the bread...

I say you once more time... DON´T SEE THIS BAD MOVIE!!! YOU COULD BECAME A NAZI AFTER THAT... OR DIE OF LAUGHING ATTACK!!

Very interesting work to know the point of view of spanish national ideology. Franco supposedly wrote the script of this mediocre film. Indispensable to understand certain things of the Spanish Civil War.

The movie was filmed when Spain, after the Civil War, was suffering a brutal genocide carried out by the victorious fascist and dictatorial side. And this movie is one of the first attempts to justify that genocide.

In any civilized country, after a civil war, there are amnesties and agreements in order to rebuild the country. That did not happen in Spain: the fascist dictator Francisco Franco, author of the pseudonymous novel, decided that it was necessary to exterminate all the republican, democratic and constitutional side survivors. This Spanish sad history period is known outside Spain as "The White Terror". In fact, Spain is the second country in the world with more mass graves. Those were years of forced labor camps, mass executions in villages, abuses and tortures, not to mention rotten justice and politics. How to justify all this postwar barbarism in the years to come? Starting with this movie.

This film represents, in a not very disguised way, an attempt to justify the unjustifiable, while fascist values are extolled.

The characters are linear, mono-neuronal. Or white or black. Villains or angels. Of course, the opposites to the fascist regime represent the perfidious, evil and demonic characters.

Nobody should be surprised about the simplicity of the script. The genocidal dictator Francisco Franco was not exactly a brilliant person, apart from being uneducated and suffering from delusions of grandeur. He could be considered one of the most awkward military men in history. And the script is hand in hand with his intelligence: ridiculously simple and tendentious, wich, in the film, is reflected with declamatory dialogues and rigid performances.

Some years later, Spain became an ally of the United States. During the talks it was evident that it was necessary to erase the all the traces of genocide and crimes. A Ministry of Information and Tourism was created (euphemism of the Ministry of Censorship) and, as you can see by reading some user reviews, it worked. Many Spaniards are unaware of the genocide that occurred in Spain after the civil war. Some Spaniards swallowed fascist propaganda. And a few ignorant or mean Spaniards consider this movie/pamphlet an art masterwrok.

The political and judicial corruption, as well as some executions, lasted until the end of the dictatorship, in 1975, but the lies, the pain remain, as this eyesore film remains, considered the greatest disgrace of Spanish cinema.

And now I ask you: Would you watch a plain simple film based on a novel and script by Adolf itler justifying the Holocaust and extolling nazism? It's the same case.

Although perhaps this film helps you understand why the Francoism direct heirs, actually in government, refuse again and again to investigate the crimes of the Franco's fascist and genocide dictatorial regime and help the families of the victims to find the remains of their loved ones in the common graves.