La Casita Blanca, La Ciutat Oculta = The white small house / The city hides

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Barcode: 58944347 Call Number: V-CAT 006 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 82 min. Date: c2002 System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Region 2 Language: Catalan, Spanish Creator: Directed by Carles Balagué Description: 1945-1955: Barcelona hides: estraper it, the misery, the records of rationing, the "houses of appointments", maquis urban, the political secrecy and in resistance the Eucarístico Congress, the visits of Franco and Eva Perón in Barcelona. In the Barcelona of postwar period the name of "the white small house" was very popular, a well-known house of appointments, or "meuble '", as it were said then, with modest galicismo. Through its history a black chronicle of the city at the time can be drawn up: some famous crimes and events related to the premises, the implications of estraper it, until the nocturnal fates of some remarkable personages of the Barcelonian bourgeoisie, the spectacle and the circles of the political power. Through interviews with historians, journalists and other testimonies, a Barcelona keeps awake hides and dark . (http://www.zinema.com/pelicula/2002/lacasita.htm) Collection: Language Resource Center