The Man Who Was There

30m

Documentary History

6

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 against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.

Cast

Laboratory Technician

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

Andrés Trapiello

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Self - Bullfighter (archive footage)

Manuel Chaves Nogales

Self - Journalist (archive footage)

Joseph Goebbels

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Luis Felipe Torrente

Director, Writer, Executive Producer

Daniel Suberviola

Director, Writer, Editor, Executive Producer, Graphic Designer

Director of Photography

Executive Producer

Manuel H. Martín

Executive Producer

Daniel Gutiérrez

José Manuel Duque

Original Music Composer