Here I am at the edge

The culture destroyer. There is no doubt that life in Spain during the Franco years was miserable; one of his greatest crimes was dragging back the culture that the country had to the Middle Ages by banning most of the artists/ writers to exile if you were lucky to escape. Some like Federico Lorca (shown above) were executed like dogs, his body has never been found. The exception to this rule is Salvador Dali who thrived during this period. There are two stories called El Hombre Oculto, one tells of a man who hid in house for the period until Franco died, still believing someone would betray though his family told him that people no longer cared about what he was doing. The other is about a man who hid in a cellar under his house until Franco died. Very few of the ones fortunate to afford the price of an escape returned, if you were in your 20's you would have been at least in your late 50's when Franco died, and what would you come back to; a country you don...

The hidden man El Hombre Oculto is not a horror film from Spain , well not in one sense of the word horror , the film is based on a true story of a man who hid in a tunnel in his house for 30 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War . His family only saw him for a few hours on a night in case they were betrayed to Franco . He was one of the fortunate, many other writers fled from Spain, never to return until Franco died in1975, others were hunted down and shot, and some like Frederico Garcia Lorca were shot, and left where they died with no grave. I started a new page this week called Alan's Obscurities   my aim is to seek out films that got little exposure, and give them some air time.