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ITALIAN TEAM INTERVIEWS GUGLIELMO MARCONI

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1. Por que abandonaches España?

Porque a miña vida estaba en perigo despois do

levantamento do xeneral Franco. Fuxín a Marrocos e

despois a México. Pasei antes por Francia. Dalí

embarquei cara a América.

1.- Why did you leave Spain?

Because my life was at risk after the coup of general

Franco. I escaped to Morocco and then to Mexico.

Before that I spent some time in France. I took a ship

there heading to America.

2. Que estudiaches en Madrid?

Bioloxía.

2.- What did you study in Madrid?

Biology.

3. Como se titula o teu primeiro filme?

Almadrabas, en 1934. Era un documental sobre a

pesca de atún na costa andaluza.

3.-What's the name of your 1st film?

Almadrabas, in 1934. It was a documentary about the

fishing of tuna in the Andalusian coast.

4. Foches arrestado algunha vez?

Si, unha vez. Pasei catro meses nun campo de

concentración de prisioneiros en Francia, cerca da

fronteira con España.

4.-Where you arrested?

Yes, once. I spent four months in a prisoner camp in

France, near the Spanish border.

5. Canto tempo viviches en México?

Uns cincuenta anos, desde que fuxín de España

durante a Guerra Civil ata o ano 1988.

5.-How long did you live in Mexico?

About fifty years, since I escaped from Spain during the

Civil War until 1988.

6. Coñecer a Vicente Risco foi crucial para a túa

pertenza ao movemento galeguista?

Si, desde logo. Vicente Risco foi unha figura destacada

para os galegos daquel tempo. Era un home tímido,

irónico e moi intelixente. Axudou a despertar a

conciencia sobre a defensa da nosa cultura e dos

dereitos políticos. Escribiu Teoría do Nacionalismo

Galego, que é un libro esencial. Despois de 1936

renunciou ás súas ideas e salvou a vida aceptando a

dictadura de Franco.

6.-Knowing Vicente Risco was crucial to your membership in galleguismo?

Yes indeed, Vicente Risco was an outstanding figure

for the Galicians at that time. He was a shy man, ironic

and very smart. He helped to arouse the conscience

about the defense of our culture and political rights. He

wrote Teoría do Nacionalismo Galego, an essential

book for Galician nationalism. After 1936 he resigned

his ideas and saved his life accepting Franco's

dictatorship.

7. Explícanos mellor en que consiste o galeguismo.

Consiste en defender a lingua e a fala galega, os seus

dereitos, a cultura galega e o seu peso político na toma

de decisións para toda España. Galicia estaba

completamente esquecida polos gobernos españois.

7.-Explain to us better what is galleguismo.

It is focused in defending the Galician language, its

rights, Galician culture and its political weight in making

decisions for the whole Spain. Galicia was completely

forgotten by Spanish governments.

8. Traballaches con grandes directores, escritores e

pintores. Cal te fascinou máis?

David Alfaro Siqueiros foi un gran pintor. Ademais foi

amigo meu. Acolleume cando cheguei a México por

primeira vez. As súas pinturas contan a historia da

revolución mexicana.

8.-You worked with great directors, writers and painters. Which one fascinated you the most?

David Alfaro Siqueiros was a great artist. Furthermore,

he was my friend. He welcomed me the first time I

arrived at Mexico. His paintings tell us the history of

Mexican revolution.

9. Consideras que foches recoñecido no teu país algo

tarde?

No final da miña vida, cineastas galegos pedíronme

que regresara. Recibín o recoñecemento que viña

desexando desde facía tanto tempo e estou feliz por ter

axudado a que seguisen facendo películas sobre o

noso país.

9.-Do you consider that your recognition by your country was late?

At the end of my life, Galician film-makers asked me to

come back. I received the recognition I had been

yearning for such a long time and I am happy to help

them to go on making films about our country.

10. Onde creaches a túa primeira película de

curtametraxe?

Na costa occidental de Andalucía para facer un

documental sobre a pesca do atún.

10.-Whe did you create your first short film?

At the western coast of Andalusia to shoot a

documentary film about the fishing of tuna.

11. Como xurdiu a túa paixón polo cinema? Tiveches

outras paixóns?

Eu descubrín o cine grazas a unha película de

Alexander Dovzhenko titulada A terra (Zemlya). Os

campesiños que alí aparecían eran iguais que os da

miña terra. Logo vin o filme de Robert Flaherty sobre a

vida dos pescadores en Irlanda. Alí estaba toda a miña

infancia.

11. How was your passion for cinema born? Had other passions?

I discovered the movies with Earth (Zemlya), a film by

Alexander Dovzhenko. The peasants I saw there were

the same peasants from my country. Then I saw the

film by Robert Flaherty about the life of fishermen in

Ireland. There it was all my childhood.

12. Como coñeciches o director Luis Buñuel?

Luis Buñuel necesitaba unhas formigas para unha

escena da súa película Un perro andaluz. O meu

profesor díxome que el non era capaz de mandarllas.

Entón eu propuxen facer unha excursión pola serra do

Guadarrama para conseguilas. Moitos anos despois xa

en México achegueime a el e entregueille un

formigueiro artificial coa formiga vermella, que tamén

existe naquel país. Buñuel quedou moi sorprendido. Así

foi como nos coñecimos en persoa.

12. How you meet the film director Luis Bunuel?

Luis Buñuel needed some ants to shoot a scene for his

film Un chien andalou. My teacher told me he was not

able to send them to Luis. So I suggest to go for a walk

by the Guadarrama range to get them. Many years

later, in Mexico, I got close to him and I gave him an

artificial ant's nest with the red ant. It also exists in that

country. Buñuel was astonished. So this was the way

we met each other.

Work done by 5th grade students and their tutor David.
CEIP de Sestelo-Baión. Vilanova de Arousa. Galicia. España