Editing War film (section)

=== Spanish Civil War ===
{{further|List of Spanish Civil War films}}
[[File:SovietSpainCivilWarPoster.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Soviet poster for an exhibition about the [[Spanish Civil War]], 1936]]

The [[Spanish Civil War]] has attracted directors from different countries. [[Sam Wood]]'s ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (film)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' (1943), based on [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s [[For Whom the Bell Tolls|book of the same name]], portrays the fated romance between an American played by [[Gary Cooper]] and a partisan played by [[Ingrid Bergman]] against the backdrop of the civil war. The epic 168-minute film with its landscapes shot in Technicolor and a "beautiful" orchestral score was a success both with audiences and with critics.<ref name=Harvard /> [[Alain Resnais]]'s ''[[Guernica (1950 film)|Guernica]]'' (1950) uses [[Picasso]]'s 1937 [[Guernica (Picasso)|painting of the same name]] to protest against war.<ref name="Harvard" /> [[Carlos Saura]]'s ''[[La Caza]]'' (The Hunt, 1966) uses the metaphor of hunting to criticise the aggressiveness of Spanish [[fascism]].<ref name=Pulver-Spanish>{{Cite news|last1=Pulver|first1=Andrew|title=A short history of Spanish cinema|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/mar/29/short-history-spanish-cinema|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=11 March 2015|date=29 March 2011}}</ref> It won the [[Silver Bear for Best Director]] at the [[16th Berlin International Film Festival]] in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1966/03_preistr_ger_1966/03_Preistraeger_1966.html |title=Berlinale 1966: Prize Winners |access-date=11 March 2015 |archive-date=15 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015120304/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1966/03_preistr_ger_1966/03_Preistraeger_1966.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Ken Loach]]'s ''[[Land and Freedom (film)|Land and Freedom]]'' (''Tierra y Libertad'', 1995), loosely based on [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Homage to Catalonia]]'', follows a British communist through the war to reveal the painful contradictions within the anti-fascist Republican side.<ref name=Harvard>{{Cite web |title=Franco, Fascists, and Freedom Fighters: The Spanish Civil War on Film |url=http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2007spring/spanish.html |publisher=Harvard Film Archive |access-date=11 March 2015 |date=2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307075445/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2007spring/spanish.html |archive-date=2015-03-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>