While at War

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.

• spanish civil war (1936-39)
• franco regime (francoism)
• law and ethics
• moral dilemma
• spanish second republic (1931-39)
• political repression
• college professor
• 1930s
• spanish history
• portrait of an artist
• salamanca, spain
• military uprising
• famous address