FREE MOVIE SCREENING: “The Good Fight”

The Good Fight,a feature-length documentary film, that pays homage to American volunteers who served with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. The film is an exploration of the political motives that compelled these volunteers to travel to Spain in the 1930s . At home they weathered anti-communist sentiment during the 1940s and 50s.
This film is the best and most moving romanticized documentation of the “poets war” ever made and as the survivors grow old, this is also probably the last film to document their lost cause.

This is the story of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American volunteer force that fought alongside the other international brigades against the fascists in 1936 Spain told by the participants themselves.The film tells the story of the young men and women who fought there using archival footage as well as interviews with surviving brigade volunteers. Those that fought, fought for a cause and a dream against fascism yet their ultimate betrayal by the rest of the world is that much more tragic.

Showing this Saturday, January 16, 2010, 1:00 pm at 339 Lafayette Street (between Bleecker & Bond), Manhattan, NYC. Hit buzzer #11; come up to the Muste Room on the 3rd Floor.

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