For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Director: Sam Wood.
Cast: Gary Cooper (Robert Jordan), Ingrid Bergman (María), Akim Tamiroff (Pablo), Arturo de Córdova (Agustín, violent), Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo, guide), Mikhail Rasumny (Rafael, Gypsy), Fortunio Bonanova (Fernando, calm), Eric Feldary (Andrés, courier to Gen. Golz), Victor Varconi (Primitivo, lookout), Katina Paxinou (Pilar), Joseph Calleia (El Sordo), Lilo Yarson (Joaquin), Alexander Granach (Paco), Adia Kuznetzoff (Gustavo), Leonid Snegoff (Ignacio).
Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
A Montana schoolteacher heads to Spain to fight for the Loyalists forces and against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. He falls in loves with a Spanish refugee.
Historical Background:
See Disappearance of Garcia Lorca (1997).
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