El silencio de otros ante los crímenes de Lesa humanitat del franquismo: Dos miradas recientes

Two recent documentary films, Héctor Fáver’s Lesa humanitat (2017) and Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s El silencio de otros (2018), address the crimes of Francoism with numerous, and sometimes even surprising, similarities, but with very different perspectives, target audiences and results. Although they are both built around interviews and archival footage, Lesa Humanitat is noteworthy for its strong poetic component and clear political intent (an overall indictment of the so-called “1978 regime”), whereas the fact that El silencio de otros follows a story line focused on the victims makes it more emotional but its ideological scope is much more limited.