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This film is based on paintings,
drawings and sculptures

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made by Picasso between
the years 1902 and 1949.

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"Guernica," painted
during the Spanish Civil War,

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provided the main focus
of this film.

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We would like to thank...

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...as well as the Museum of Modern
Art and the Louis eLeiris Gallery

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for providing us with
all the necessary documents.

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Guernica...

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is a small town
in the Biscaye region,

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the traditional capital
of the Basque Country.

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That's where the oak tree
be came the sacred symbol

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of Basque freedom
and traditions.

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Guernica's relevance is mainly
historic and sentimental.

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On April 26th, 1937,
in the early afternoon hours,

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a series of Nazi planes
incessantly bombed Guernica

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for three
and a half hours.

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The city was burnt
to the ground.

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2,000 people died--
all civilians.

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The bombing was part
of an experiment

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to determine the combined effects
of incendiary and explosive bombs

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on civilian populations.

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Friendly faces by the fire,
friendly faces in the cold

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Oppressed, humiliated,
beaten, kept in the dark,

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Friendly faces
faced with nothing

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Poor faces, sacrificed

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Your death will be
a warning to all

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Death,
an overthrown heart

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They made you pay for bread
with your life

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They made you pay
for the sky, the earth,

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Water and sleep,
with your life

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They made you pay
for misery

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Sweet actors,

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So sad but so sweet,

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Actors in perpetual drama,

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You weren't expecting death.

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The fear and courage
to live and die

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Death, so difficult
and simple

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Women and children have
the same treasure in their eyes

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Men safeguard it
the way they can.

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People in Guernica
are simple people.

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We've read it in the paper,
over a cup of coffee:

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somewhere in Europe, an army of
killers is marching over humanity.

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Somewhere in Europe...
at our doorstep.

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Bullets finish off
the dying.

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Bullets play with children,
better than the wind...

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Women and children have
the same red roses in their eyes.

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Their blood
for all to see

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Odd to think we were scared
of lightning, scared of thunder.

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How naive. Thunder's an angel
and lighting its wings.

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We'd never been to the basement,
for fear of seeing nature's horrors.

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Wearing helmets and boots--
polite and handsome men--

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aviators drop their bombs.
With such care.

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Down on the ground, chaos.

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Blood on the men.
Blood on the beast

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A harvest, repugnant
and more disgusting

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Than the butchers,
so pure and clean.

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Try to control a beast
feeling impending death.

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Try to tell the mother
why her child died.

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Try to bring comfort
in destruction.

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One night remains,
that of war,

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Sister of destitution and daughter
of death, repugnant, frightening.

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Monuments of distress

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Beautiful ruins

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Mines and fields

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Brothers,
here you are, rotting

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And broken bones.

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The earth turns
in your orbits

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You, rotting desolation

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Death interrupted
the comfort of time

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You are now left
to worms and ravens

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When you were our most
vibrant promise.

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Under the dead
oak tree in Guernica,

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to the ruins of Guernica,

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under Guernica's
pure skies,

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a man came back,
holding a bleating lamb

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and a dove
in his heart.

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For all men, he's singing
the pure song of rebellion,

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grateful for love,
rejecting oppression.

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A man is singing.

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The wasps of his pain rush
into the broken horizon.

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The bees of his songs made their
nests in the heart of humanity.

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Guernica

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Innocence will overcome
destruction.

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Guernica.

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THE END