Los Muchachos Revolution Circus
In the 1970s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a Spanish circus astonished the world: the Circo de los Muchachos, which was the visible face of Benposta, a children's republic run by Father Silva: the story of the rise and fall of one of the most unique utopias of the 20th century.
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In the 1970s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a Spanish circus astonished the world: the Circo de los Muchachos, which was the visible face of Benposta, a children's republic run by Father Silva: the story of the rise and fall of one of the most unique utopias of the 20th century.
1.A World First!
22-11-202449mGalicia, 1960s. With fifteen children and a motorbike, Father Silva creates Benposta, a city governed by children called upon to change the world whose message finds an unusual sho...
2.Children's Republic
22-11-202457m1970-1975: After disastrous beginnings, the Circo de los Muchachos achieves unprecedented international success and Benposta becomes an educational benchmark; but the children grow...
3.We Are the Children of the Earth
22-11-202454m1975-1985: The Circo de los Muchachos tours the five continents in an unusual journey full of excesses and surreal experiences; while, in Benposta, far from the glamour of the circ...
4.The War That Poisons the Nights and Darkens the Days
22-11-202460m1985-2000: Problems worsen when, in the initially successful Spanish Welfare State, Benposta runs out of children and the Priest has to go to America and Africa in search of new me...
5.If All Men Were to Shake Hands…
22-11-202457m2000s: The former muchachos revolt to save Benposta or dethrone the leader, a fratricidal struggle that darkens the last years of the Priest. What remains today of that utopia?
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