Guernica (1950 film)

Guernica
Guernica
Directed by	Alain Resnais; Robert Hessens
Written by	Paul Eluard
Produced by	Pierre Braunberger
Starring	María Casares (narrator); Jacques Pruvost (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 short film directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens.^[1]

Synopsis

After a brief voice-over by Jacques Pruvost describing the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1937, María Casares recites a poem by Paul Eluard on the subject of that atrocity, accompanied by imagery from numerous paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced by Pablo Picasso between 1920 and 1949, particularly Guernica (1937). The oppressive musical arrangements in the film were composed by Guy Bernard.

Home media

The short film is available as a special feature on the DVD edition of The Mystery of Picasso, Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1956 documentary about Picasso.

References

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

External links

Guernica at IMDb

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[1] "Guernica". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-04-03.

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v t e 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 Picasso's written works
Paintings	Le petit picador jaune (1889) Science and Charity (1897) Le Moulin de la Galette (1900) The Appointment (1901) Child with a Dove (1901) La Gommeuse (1901) Yo, Picasso (1901) Portrait of Jaime Sabartés (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1901–1902) Old Jewish Man with a Boy (1903) 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 (1905–1906) Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905–1906) Head of a Young Woman (1906) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Woman with a Fan (1908) Brick Factory at Tortosa (1909) Woman with a Fan (1909) Femme et pot de moutarde (1910) Girl with a Mandolin (1910) 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) Arlequin (1913) 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) Femme à la montre (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) Girl with a Red Beret and Pompom (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) Bust of a Seated Woman (Jacqueline Roque) (1960) Jacqueline (1961) Femme au Chien (1962)
Sculptures	Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) (1931) Tête de femme (Dora Maar) (1941) Bull's Head (1942) Baboon and Young (1951) Figure découpée (1963, 1964, 1965) 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	Girl from Majorca (1905) Don Quixote (1955) Toros y toreros (1961)
Lithographs	Le Taureau (1945–1946) Dove (1949)
Murals	Regjeringskvartalet murals
Plays	Desire Caught by the Tail (c. 1941) The Four Little Girls (c. 1947–1948)
Poetry	Picasso's written works
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) Château de Boisgeloup (Normandy)
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)
Residences (France)	Bateau-Lavoir (Montmartre Paris) Villa La Vigie (Juan-les-Pins, Summer 1924) Château de Boisgeloup (Gisors, 1930–1937) Château of Vauvenargues (Vauvenargues, 1958–1962) Villa La Californie (Cannes, 1955–1961) Château de Vie (Mougins, 1961–1973)
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) Fundación Picasso Picasso. In the heart of darkness (1939–1945) (2019–2020 exhibition) Picasso & Lump (2006 book) Picasso referendum of Basel 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) "Pablo Picasso" (1976 song) The Blue Guitar (1977 etchings) Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993 play) Picasso (crater)

v t e Guernica (1937 painting)
Artist	Pablo Picasso
Inspiration	Bombing of Guernica Juan Larrea George Steer
Location	Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Past locations	1937 Paris International Exposition Museum of Modern Art Casón del Buen Retiro
In popular culture	Guernica (1950 film) Genius (2018 TV series)
Related	Dora Maar John Ferren Josep Lluís Sert