Vivir la utopía

Vivir la utopía. El anarquismo en espana. (Original 1997). Living Utopia Anarchism in Spain, spanish with english subtitels. Around 95 minutes. This documentary-film by Juan Gamero consists of 30 interviews with survivors of the 1936-1939 Spanish Revolution, and is in our view one of the best documentaries dealing with the theme. The testimony of the anarchist militants are very moving indeed, and are showing the constructive work of the social revolution in Spain. This "Anarchy in Action" meant: on the land around 7 million peasents form collectives, in the city 3000 workplaces collectivised, 150 000 join the anarchist militias to fight fascism, as well as cultural activities and the movement of the Mujeres Libres to free the women from patriarchy.

Direct links to all 10 parts of the film via youtube, in spanish with english subtitels:

Part 1/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBnAPKN9Oo

Part 2/10: "Vivir la utopía - Living Utopia": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ZeuVfvJ8Q&feature=related

Part 3/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hHjVYtVIuM&feature=related

Part 4/10: "Vivir la utopía - Living Utopia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDssK4Q1myM&feature=related

Part 5/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9g5xr2mjzY&feature=related

Part 6/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Go14T0kLss&feature=related

Part 7/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XmJlhJxoM8&feature=related

Part 8/10: "Vivir la utopía - Living Utopia": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFN63kk0Ec4&feature=related

Part 9/10: "Living Utopia - Vivir la utopía": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypR_czZxaDw&feature=related

Part 10/10: "Vivir la utopía - Living Utopia": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX50Evmv1X0&feature=related

George Orwell about the Social Revolution in Spain

"Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine". from "Homage to Catalonia"

Websites

• http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=84&lang=es - "Research Forum on Anarchism", short discribtion of the 30 interviews with the old veterans english by Pietro Ferrua).
• http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=276024032&chanel=219646953&lineup=234388931 "Living Utopia - (Vivir la Utopia)" via Anarchist Film Channel/ChristieBooks, brightcove spanish with english subtitels! [The first 20 min. of the film] (and many more historic CNT-FAI videos e.g. from Antonio Ortiz and stuff from Noam Chomsky, about the Wobblies etc.)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBnAPKN9Oo "Living Utopia", der complete Film in english via youtube.com in 10 parts.
• http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/utopia.htm Living Utopia - Vivir la Utopia english-language translation by Paul Sharkey.
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/spaindx.html Images from the Spanish Revolution of 1936
• http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net ['Anarcho-Syndikalism 101 - Class Struggle online']
• http://www.memorialibertaria.org "La Revolución Libertaria" - Exhibition
• http://deu.anarchopedia.org/Vivir_la_utopía links to the film in spanish, french, german.

See also

• Anarchist Film Channel with around 400 films about anarchism by Stuart Christie.