The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise
Thursday 05/03/2026
18:30 “The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise” Screening
After the film, Q&A with the director Pablo Gil, drinks courtesy of Estrella Damm, Azimut wines and Melin Vin, and a musical performance
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Location: Cinemateket, ASTA
Director: Pablo Gil Rituerto
Screenplay: Pablo Gil Rituerto, Alba Lombardía
Key Contributors: Includes archival contributors and music-artists such as Lionello Gennero, Emilio Jona, etc.
Year: 2024
Languages featured: Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, with English subtitles
Original title: “La Marsellesa de los Borrachos”
Synopsis:
Pablo Gil’s documentary uncovers the remarkable mission of a group of young Italian anthropologists who, in 1961, secretly travelled through Spain during the Franco dictatorship to record songs of resistance that were forbidden at the time. Working discreetly and always under the shadow of censorship and fear, they captured voices that might otherwise have vanished. Six decades later, the rediscovery of those tapes makes it possible to revisit that journey through surviving documents, testimonies, and the recordings themselves. The film reconstructs the political climate in which these songs were preserved and explores the cultural value of safeguarding expressions created under repression. The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise reflects on memory, music, and the fragile traces of these stories.
Pablo Gil’s documentary uncovers the remarkable mission of a group of young Italian anthropologists who, in 1961, secretly travelled through Spain during the Franco dictatorship to record songs of resistance that were forbidden at the time. Working discreetly and always under the shadow of censorship and fear, they captured voices that might otherwise have vanished. Six decades later, the rediscovery of those tapes makes it possible to revisit that journey through surviving documents, testimonies, and the recordings themselves. The film reconstructs the political climate in which these songs were preserved and explores the cultural value of safeguarding expressions created under repression. The Drunkmen’s Marseillaise reflects on memory, music, and the fragile traces of these stories.