Film Commission Torino Piemonte

After all these years of investigation, we have assembled a vast documentary base meticulously gathered from archives that puts Cantacronache’s journey into context: sound recordings, photographs, writings and films. At the same time, The drunkmen’s Marseillaise is not only a historical film that follows the traces of Cantacronache’s journey, but also a film open to the present. The luminous and unconscious spirit of the young people of Cantacronache permeates our approach. How do the struggles of the past resonate with the struggles of our present? What remains of these songs in Spanish society? The rise of populist and far-right parties is a common denominator throughout Europe, and puts the spotlight on the historical revision and reparation processes that have been taking place with varying degrees of success. It is against this backdrop that we get stories likethe one told in The Drunkmen's Marseillaise, a story that has been silenced for quite a long time now. Memory work is a heritage that only finds its meaning when we are able to activate it in the present.