- Country: Spain
- Genres: Biography, Documentary, History, War
- Release: 2009-10-16
- Director: Oriol Porta
- Writers: Isabel Andrés , Oriol Porta , Llorenç Soler
- Language: Catalan | Spanish | English
- Stars: Lluís Soler , Brendan Price
- Runtime: 92 min
- Awards: 2 nominations
- AKA: Hollywood contra Franco , A War in Hollywood (United States of America) , Hollywood contra Franco (United States of America) , Hollywood contra Franco (Spain)
- Plot: The Spanish Civil War made a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of the 20th Century. Lots of films were made in Hollywood referring to this event, and the defeat of the Democratic Spain let an "open wound" in the heart of liberal actors, directors and screenwriters. The coherent life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie is our track through this feeling. From his fighting in Spain with the Abraham Lincoln Brigades in 1937 to his return to Spain 30 years later, where he was required to write his only film after being blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten". This is an original approach to one of the most controversial subjects of our times: the relationship between film industry and politics.
- IMDB:tt1314772
Hollywood contra Franco Cast · · · ALL
Oriol Porta
Director
Lluís Soler
Alvah Bessie (voice)
Moe Fishman
Self - Abraham Lincoln Brigade Member
Susan Sarandon
Self - Actress
Román Gubern
Self - Film Historian / Screenwriter
Dan Bessie
Self - Alvah Bessie's Son
Walter Bernstein
Self - Screenwriter
Arthur Laurents
(1918–2011)
Self - Screenwriter
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Alvah Bessie
Self - Screenwriter (archive footage)
Dalton Trumbo
(1905–1976)
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Edward Dmytryk
Self - Director (archive footage)
Eric Johnston
Self - MPAA President (archive footage)
Ernest Hemingway
Self - Writer (archive footage)
Francisco Franco
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
John Garfield
(I)
(1913–1952)
John 'Kit' McKittrick / Self (archive footage)
Joseph I. Breen
Self - PCA Administrator (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)
Manuel Fraga
Self (archive footage)