In fact, the speech isn't written or recorded and we don't know what exactly he said, but Unamuno wrote some notes in a letter he carried, and the speech written in the script is based on that notes.
Most of what we know about the speech comes from an article of Luis Portillo on the "Horizon" magazine, which was later reported by historian Hugh Thomas on his book about the Spanish Civil War. The veracity of Portillo's account has been widely questioned and historian Saveriano Delgado has described his version as a "liturgical drama"
What he said is written but it was a lot less anti-falangist than this. He basically said: "I'm with franco but watch out, we don't want to defeat bolshevism and exchange it with a right wing totalitarian state". It was more like a constructive criticism to contain the excesses and the future regime of the army.
@@TheAnikeenko Unamuno said a couple of things that are shown, but half of the speech is invented Those who attended the speech were neither military nor Falangists, they were the wealthy people of Salamanca After the speech, no one began to sing the "cara al sol" or to insult him, it simply created a great uproar Millan Astray shouted "death to traitorous intellectuals" and said nothing more The movie is pretty good, but if you know about the history behind it, it becomes a giant pile of shit
@@LTSneed interesting, but if the movie was completely accurate it would be very boring. They added the spirit of the falangists during and after the war and you gotta appreciate that.
No, he was not a fascist. He was staunchly anti-fascist. So much so that Hitler and the Nazi party wrote a letter to the Nobel committee dissuading them from giving him the Nobel Prize in Literature (which they heeded btw). He was a hardcore leftist by all historical accounts.
@Adam Chillingsworth It’s definitely a dramatization of a mythical moment, but it aptly captures Unamuno’s fierce spirit. That part is real-whether the event happened or not.
he literally choked harder than eminem did in his first rap battle lol had to be led out by the wife of one of the fascists out of sheer pity what the hell are you even talking about? hahahahahahaha
He aquí el final de esta magnífica película en la que se recrea el famoso discurso del gran Miguel de Unamuno en la celebración del día de la raza de 1936. Donde se atrevió a decir la verdad de la locura que estaban llevando en nombre de España. Nunca la razón y la pasión desbordada han tenido un punto en común y de ahí las terribles secuelas en propiciar esta guerra civil que el noble pueblo español tuvo que soportar.
Es una pelicula. Pero es ficcion. No ocurrio asi, ignorante. La pelicula es preciosa. Pero es una pelicula. La republica se inflò a matar. Por eso ningun pais decente les ayudò. Ni Astray gritò a Unamuno ni la mujer de Paco le saco de la mano del paraninfo. Ignorante
In fact, the speech isn't written or recorded and we don't know what exactly he said, but Unamuno wrote some notes in a letter he carried, and the speech written in the script is based on that notes.
@@overlord5068 He is not as wrong as you think. Few things about US politics between Democrats and Republicans are civil these days. America is slipping. Will it catch itself? Or fall ever deeper into a pit of its own making? Only time will tell.
Spain has always been very divided. Since we got independence from France in 1814, we have had 4 civil wars including this one, and we had many more of them before this historical event. Imagine that a civil war in your country happens at that time and the public opinion about Franco and the war keeps frozen as a taboo topic till 1975.
It was an ad hoc speech against stupidity and he reacted to a previous speech and the slogans of the general, Unamuno became a beacon of truth in his temple of education and his actual speech and his poems should be taught in schools, kept in libraries worldwide. As he stood up for what is truly human beyond all -isms and ideologies, despite their increasingly violent character. He didn't address the militant Falangists alone, though as the movie clip suggests.
yet, even in their propaganda piece at the end, the leftist cunts that made the movie could not properly portray Franco's side as "bad". The wife of the man he was critiquing was the one who saved his stupid ass. He was not thrown in prison, or sentenced to death. Always stupid intellectuals speaking out of their ass causing trouble of magnificent proportions. case in point in actual history: the insurgency that caused the Iranian "revolution" of 1979 was vastly supported by "Intellectuals", which amounted to stupid, youth who had not even finished their degrees, and their even stupider professors who went behind a power hungry, fanatic, Iran hating man. Same shit happened in Chile. One country was doomed, the other was saved
Siendo objetivos no lo dijo tal cual como se muestra en la película pero es un discurso emotivo sin duda y como se muestra en la película, el problema y sin demeritar a Don Miguel es que el nunca se puso de acuerdo con el mismo tuvo una posición ideológica ambivalente la mayor parte de su vida lo que lo llevo a un final no deseado por el.
Catholicism might disappear in the coming decades in Spain and other west european countries, young people are overwhelmingly becoming atheists or agnostic and churches are almost always empty of young people.
@@loiu657 Unamuno was in no way left-wing. He was a fascist. It's just that he didn't come to realise that those whom he supported and for whom advocated would come to kill his less-so-fascist friends and acquaintances.
@@user-in5xz4hq4lhe wasn't a Fascist. He was a liberal. His support for the putchists wasn't ideological,but preety much cowardly self interest (being reinstated as rector in the university of Salamanca)
I feel like the Spanish Civil War was one of many inspirations for George Lucas, for the development of the Galactic Civil War, the fall of the Republic to the Sith and the rise of Palpatine to the Galactic Empire. I see many similarities between the fall of the Galactic Republic at the hands of the Sith, and the fall of the Spanish Republic at the hands of the Nationalists.
The Empire in Star Wars was defeated by Revolution, not by a peaceful transfer of Power. Also, Francoist Spain was Isolationist and didn't want to expand or conquer- which is the opposite of the Galactic Empire. The Star Wars story is based on Germany: Weimar Republic--+> Nazi Germany (the Title of the Head of the Old Republic in Star Wars was "Chancellor" too)
Fascism lost in every other part of europe and people are still recognicing it as unhuman bullshit. Criticising has nothing to do with winning or loosing.
Once communism establishment at least in America, there one day when it brought down, Communism will finally be put in the same coffin as fascism but do we have to let people suffer under it? Do we need to support it being established despite what it had done ?
I just read about this incident in the book: Mark Kurlansky; The Basque history of the World. New York 1999. It moved me greatly and this movie captures it perfectly. What madness in that age and such courage of Unamuno.
Many may not have seen more than this scene, especially English-speaking people. For those who say oh he was a hero and blabla, who know that he belonged to the fascist party Spanish phalanx, before he was red and at the moment of truth he shit on top because he did not see the war well and at the decisive moment he cowered, nobody wanted to bury Unamuno for fear of the military, who in the end was buried by his last comrades of the phalanx. Add that this film has historical manipulation, the military Republican symbols and they wanted the flag of three colors, but the Carlists denied and were just as important as the Falangists and do not appear in the film, but thanks to them Spain has today the flag of 2 colors... In general terms the film is fine, but let's not take the film as if it were a history book because it is not so, although the facts coincide we must understand that Spanish cinema is full of communists and if they can destroy a statue that a national soldier saved 100 Jews they will not hesitate to destroy it to hide it in history
I understand your point of view and since my people also had a messy civil war, i can kinda understand, yet i am with unamuno speech here when he says that this war was anything but "civil"......war has always been a ugly thing, even more so when it's a war that drags you and your neighbour against eachother. To be honest i feel that both my and your nation deserve some form of national reconciliation, otherwise both of our countries will be forever cracked....
Unamuno en un principio apoyó el golpe de estado porque pensó que sería una forma de salvar y estabilizar españa, pero al ver las ideas falangistas y principalmente en este evento, el día de la raza (12 de octubre) en el paraninfo de la universidad de Salamanca en 1936 cuando dejaría de apoyar al bando sublevado. "Extrañamente" moriría el 31 de diciembre del mismo año cuando un general fascista le había visitado uno o dos días antes Unamuno initially supported the coup because he thought it would be a way to save and stabilize Spain, but seeing Falangist ideas and mainly in this event, on Columbus Day (October 12) in the auditorium of the University of Salamanca in 1936 when it would stop supporting the rebel side. he would "suddenly" die on December 31 of the same year when a fascist general had visited him a day or two before
@@isihydrovk9020 en unas elecciones poco más que turbias... Si nos ponemos así en el 31 también hubo un golpe de estado, aunque claro, si lo hace la izquierda se llama "revolución"...
@@gerardp.f.5869 no has entendido nada entonces. Fascismo y bolchevismo son lo mismo, por lo que no te escondas en las tinieblas para criticar a unos obviando los otros.
@@gerardp.f.5869 con esa contestación no hace falta que digas nada más, no equiparas, clasificas, pones a uno por encima del otro, y por tanto no eres de los que pensaban como Unamuno, eres de los que estaban a favor del frente popular, de Largo Caballero, Negrín y su séquito de descerebrados a los que el propio Manuel Azaña repudió. Pero oye, hoy en día cada uno puede tener las ideas que quiera, pero estando al lado de unos, no descalifiques a los otros
It’s amazing how English people see this scene and invent things about it or compare it with _their_ political situation. When they don’t have seen the rest of the film or neither know what actually happened. In the other hand, Spanish people saying things like “all Spanish cinema is made from communists” or “these isn’t accurate” 🤦🏻♂️…
Unamuno is one voice we need today, reply to this scene with Wokeism and the alphabet morons and his voice is as clear as it was in 1936, and he was a devout Catholic!
Fue en ese momento que Miguel de Unamuno desperto. Esto ya no era 1898, sino 1936, el incio de la guerra civil espanola. Los intelectuales en Espana ya habian muerto con Lorca y el se convirtio en una reliquia de una generacion que no tenia relevancia. Tanto hablo sobre la defensa de la civilicacion Occidental Cristiana, que ya ante sus ojos vio como los de Falange y Franco la distoricionarion.
Because Franco stabalized a torn nation or because he improved literacy rates, education, industry, economy and technology? How did he kill spain I don't understand.
It’s exactly like this in college classes in America right now but instead of liberals being silenced it’s conservatives. Same thing, different victim.
I don't know about that. This was a period in history where the Spanish fascists came to power in a coup and then killed anyone who opposed them during and after the war. Franco's regime murdered many people. Even in this clip it's very clear that the man could've been killed by the fascist supporters if that woman hadn't taken him from the room. I'm unaware of college conservatives in America being sentenced to death by firing squad or sent to political prisoner camps.
@@grahamcarpenter5135 That woman was Franco’s wife. The nationalists where monarchists, fascists, Catholics and right wingers and conservatives, not only fascist. And as someone that has studied the history behind this scene I must say that the director make up most of the things to give more drama to the scene because most of the things didn’t performed in this way.
To Mr. Carpenter Towards end of Civil War,Communists were calling ,running the So Called Republic! They killed Thousands! Plenty of Blood to go around in any Civil War! And just what do YOU think is going on Here NOW,?! American Marxists are indoctrinating Police,Military against WE REAL AMERICANS!? The Pelosi bitch wanted to set up Machine Guns,live Ammo to be pointed At The people during the so called Inauguration! This FACT! These People are traitors,only one facing them! The left will order police,military to use force on US?! That Will be A French Revolutionary Moment! There will be NO GOING BACK! It's Long Overdue!
Of course it, all movies are, they are dramatization. That's a beautiful scene, well written, well directed and well dramatized. Spanish movie industry is having a golden age right now, with good actors, directors, staff and scriptors. Enjoy it while it last.
1. The history wasn't made up. 2. If you watched the movie, you'd see that Miguel de Unamuno was opposed to both sides. His speech was about condemning the war, not a certain camp in particular.
@@TheAnikeenko Tranquilo amigo, Diego es transhistorico y no se identifica con los hechos. No entiendo como gente como usted puede ser tan intolerante en este 2021
Millán-Astray was evil to his core though. Unamuno knew about his participation in the massacre of civilians during the Philippine Revolution. He deserves all that hate upon him. Sin verguenzas!
For such an acclaimed intellectual he is nothing but a foolish old man. Human beings will always choose hate over reason. To attempt to convince them will only stoke that hate ever higher.
tu sanchismo tiene que estar contento con sus progresos rojos pactando con comunistas golpistas exiliados , etarras y marroquies , tienes que estar orgulloso de sus logros verdad?
@@miguelsanchezromero5268 pero si se creen que son muchos jajajaja . No te das cuenta que los podemitas y los del PSOE cada vez son menos ? Solamente con mirar lo que paso en Andalucia ya se sabe quién ganara las elecciones .
Es una pelicula. Pero es fccion. No ocurrio asi, La pelicula es preciosa. Pero es una pelicula. La republica se inflò a matar. Por eso ningun pais decente les ayudò. Ni Astray gritò a Unamuno ni la mujer de Paco le saco de la mano del paraninfo.