RECUERDOS

Recuerdos means remembrance. This film remembers Luis Frank, a Lithuanian born at the end of the 19^th century. He emigrated to New York in the early 20^th century, worked for the Secret Service during the First World War and joined the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War. While he was there, Frank made two documentary films. Later he was exiled to Mexico, where he started a new life and founded a family.

Director Marceala Arteaga reconstructs this colourful life through extensive interviews with friends and acquaintances Frank made all over the world. But Recuerdos is more than a biography. It is a journey through history, stopping at many of the most important events of the past century.

More than reconstructing step by step Luis’s life, I have tried in this documentary to recover the individuals, places, facts, feelings and atmospheres that marked him and his life time. All these, combined, eventually tell the story of each and every one of us.  Marceala Arteaga

A film of atmosphere, feelings, textures, more than certainties… While looking back to a tragic century, Recuerdos sings a song of nostalgia, freedom, memory, dreams, ideals and the enormous capability of man to overcome adversity.  Nelson Carro