The book was acclaimed by critics in spain and was top of the bestseller book list there for many months. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the. With ariadna gil, ramon fontsere, joan dalmau, maria botto. When i read javier cercas novel soldiers of salamina, i did not think of making a film out of it. Henriquea a valuable lesson on how not to write a screenplay. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this wikipedia article constitutes fair use. Scenes of the massacre of about 50 fascist sympathizers killed by republican forces during the. As usual, this film was shot in hd video high definition widescreen and bluray with dolby digital audio. Her latest assignment is to investigate a true story that took place at the end of the civil war. When the professor and writer lola sanchez is assigned to write a column in the newspaper about the spanish civil war, she researches and finds for the first time about the shooting of rafael sanchez mazas. Henriqueas rating of the film soldiers of salamina. A novelist who has given up her writing career investigates a real story that took place at the very end of the. Salamis is a film directed by david trueba with ariadna gil, ramon fontsere, joan dalmau, maria botto, year.
Lola has lost her passion for writing, and she becomes intrigued about rafael, who was a. Cercas and i had met each other a couple of years before and he sent me his book when it had just come off the press. Soldiers of salamina 2003 by david trueba unsung films. Two years later its film adaptation was released and the following year the novel won the independent foreign fiction prize in the uk.
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