Guernica (1950 film)

Guernica
Guernica
Directed by	Alain Resnais; Robert Hessens
Written by	Alain Resnais; Paul Eluard
Starring	María Casares (narrator)
Cinematography	Henri Ferrand
Music by	Guy Bernard
Production; company	Pantheon Productions
Distributed by	Les Films de la Pleiade
Release date	1950
Running time	13 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Guernica is a 1950 French film directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens.^[1]

Synopsis[]

After a brief voiceover by Jacques Pruvost highlighting the Guernica atrocity of April 1937, María Casares recites a poem by Paul Eluard on the subject of that atrocity illustrated with numerous paintings, drawings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso, latterly the painting Guernica (1937). The oppressive musical arrangements were composed by Guy Bernard.

DVD release[]

Guernica is available as a special feature on the DVD edition of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.

References[]

^ "Guernica". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-04-03.

External links[]

Guernica at IMDb

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v t Pablo Picasso
Periods	Blue (1901–1904) Rose (1904–1906) African (1907–1909) Cubism (1910–1919)
Lists of works	1889–1900 1901–1910 1911–1920 1921–1930 1931–1940 1941–1950 1951–1960 1961–1970 1971–1973
Paintings	Le petit picador jaune (1889) Science and Charity (1897) Child with a Dove (1901) La Gommeuse (1901) Yo, Picasso (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1901-02) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904-1905) Woman Ironing (1904) Girl in a Chemise (c.1905) Acrobat and Young Harlequin (1905) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Girl on a Ball (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Au Lapin Agile (1905) Young Girl with a Flower Basket (1905) Famille d'acrobates avec singe (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1905–06) Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905–06) Head of a Young Woman (1906) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Brick Factory at Tortosa (1909) Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) The Accordionist (1911) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) La Coiffeuse (1911) Violon et raisins (1912) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Ma Jolie (1912) Ma Jolie (1914) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c. 1921) The Pipes of Pan (1923) The Three Dancers (1925) Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) Le Repos (1932) Girl before a Mirror (1932) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Two Girls Reading (1934) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) Portrait of Dora Maar (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Woman's Head (1939) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) The Charnel House (1944–1945) Nature morte au poron (1948) Massacre in Korea (1951) Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955) Las Meninas (1957) The Fall of Icarus (1958) Jacqueline (1961) Femme au Chien (1962)
Sculptures	Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) (1931) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1941) Bull's Head (1942) Baboon and Young (1951) Chicago Picasso (1967) Sylvette (1970)
Etchings	Vollard Suite (1930–1937) Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (1933) Minotauromachy (1935) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) 347 Series (1968)
Drawings	Don Quixote (1955) Toros y toreros (1961)
Lithographs	Dove (1949)
Plays	Desire Caught by the Tail (c. 1941) The Four Little Girls (c. 1947–48)
Poetry	Picasso's poetry
Ballet designs	Picasso and the Ballets Russes Parade The Three-Cornered Hat Pulcinella Le Train Bleu Mercure
Museums	Musée Picasso (Paris) Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga)
Partners	Fernande Olivier Marie-Thérèse Walter Dora Maar Françoise Gilot Geneviève Laporte
Family	Olga Khokhlova (first wife) Jacqueline Roque (second wife) Maya Widmaier-Picasso (daughter) Claude Picasso (son) Paloma Picasso (daughter) Diana Widmaier Picasso (granddaughter) Marina Picasso (granddaughter) Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (grandson) José Ruiz y Blasco (father)
Films and television about	Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001) Modigliani (2004) Genius (2018 TV series)
Related	Carles Casagemas Carl Nesjar Lydia Corbett Lump (dog) Bateau-Lavoir Château of Vauvenargues Villa La Californie Fundación Picasso Picasso. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945) (2019-2020 exhibition) Picasso & Lump (2006 book) Picasso referendum of Basel Regjeringskvartalet murals Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1915 painting) "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1924 poem) Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) (1973 painting) Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993 play)

v t Guernica (1937 painting)
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Inspiration	Bombing of Guernica Juan Larrea
Location	Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
In popular culture	Guernica (1950 film) Genius (2018 TV series)
Related	1937 Paris International Exposition Casón del Buen Retiro Dora Maar John Ferren

Guernica
Directed by	Alain Resnais Robert Hessens
Written by	Alain Resnais Paul Eluard
Starring	María Casares (narrator)
Cinematography	Henri Ferrand
Music by	Guy Bernard
Production company	Pantheon Productions
Distributed by	Les Films de la Pleiade
Release date	1950
Running time	13 minutes
Country	France
Language	French