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La Bandera is a 1935 French drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Annabella, Jean Gabin and Robert Le Vigan. It was based on the 1931 novel La Bandera by Pierre Mac Orlan. After committing a brutal murder in Paris, a Frenchman flees to Barcelona where he enlists in the Spanish Foreign Legion. He is sent to fight in Morocco where he unexpectedly bonds with his comrades and marries a local woman before…
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Second Spanish Republic was short-lived and today it is mostly known for the brutal war that led to its demise and replacement with Franco’s dictatorship. Small glimpse of it during peacetime is provided by *La Bandera*, 1935 drama directed by Julien Duvivier, one of the biggest hits of 1930s French cinema. The film is based on the eponymous novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The plot begins one night in Paris where the dru…More
