SOLDIERS OF SALAMIS

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is th e writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, and faces death for the second tim e that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns and walks away.Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero and the soldier disappears int o histor...[Read more]