The Man Who Was There
The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight again...
Top Cast
Luis Camacho
Laboratory Technician
Rafael Díaz
Typographer
Eduardo Estrada
Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Ramón Soria Breña
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Clara Irina Torrente
Young Pilar Chaves Jones
Diego de la Serna
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pilar Chaves Jones
Self - Daughter
María Isabel Cintas
Self - Biographer
Jorge Martínez Reverte
Self - Journalist
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Self - Writer
Andrés Trapiello
Self - Writer
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Juan Belmonte
Self - Bullfighter (archive footage)
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)
More Like This
Michael Collins
The First Film
Daybreak Express
Paris in the Belle Epoque
Viva Zapata!
Niet inej cesty
Breaking the Silence
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy
Mapplethorpe
Raging Bull
Danton
The United States in the 20th Century 1932-1940
The War Prayer
Conversations of a Marriage
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State
The Comeback
Fort Saganne
Introducing, Selma Blair
Lily Topples The World
Kurosawa's Way