While the war lasts is one of the last successful cinematographic approaches to the Spanish civil war. Without entering into the hornet's nest of considerations about its artistic and historical values I would like to focus on Alejandro Amenábar's view of the curious gathering made up of the Salamanca rector Miguel de Unamuno the Anglican pastor Atilano Coco and the Arabist Salvador Vila Hernández. Despite their political religious and aesthetic differences the intellectual debate was suggestive and addictive for all of them and when the heat of the discussion overwhelmed civility friendship always redirected the situation towards respect and esteem.
The three members understood perfectly that ideas were one thing and people were another. "While the War Lasts" by Alejandro Amenábar | Scene: 'Friends' | HD This elementary distinction disappeared after July . Ideological and discursive violence became UAE Phone Number physical violence and the terms became confused. Thus at that time an article entitled To the heads was published in Seville cited by Josep Fontana which said: “It is not fair that the flock is slaughtered and the shepherds are saved. Not one more minute can the Freemasons the politicians the journalists the teachers the professors the publicists the school the professorship the press the magazine the book and the tribune which were the premise and the cause continue unpunished. of the convulsions and effects that we regret” And their impunity guaranteed and their actions even promoted by the new power the executioners applied themselves to the task.
As the film shows us Atilano Coco will be one of the first victims of a terror allergic to difference to dissent to debate to knowledge. The efforts of a Unamuno who attended stunned at the arrest and later execution of his friend were of no use. And with him and behind him many more turning Salamanca – like many other places in the rebel rearguard where there was no war but there was repression and violence – into a “wild nightmare.” It will be precisely on the back of a letter sent by the widow of the Anglican pastor – one of the many desperate letters he received – where the Salamanca rector will write down the basic lines of his unforeseen intervention at the Fiesta de la Raza in response to the atrocities of previous speeches. That mythical although perhaps not literal "you will win but you will not convince" closed his last public act and although his figure would continue to be used propagandistically Unamuno was removed from all his positions and practically confined until his death.
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