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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Moroccan labyrinth
  title info:
    title: Laberinto Marroqui
  name:
    name part: Sánchez Veiga, Julio.
  name:
    name part: Canal Sur Televisión (Andalusia, Spain)
  name:
    name part: Intermedia Producciones (Firm)
  name:
    name part: Icarus Films
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: spa
  physical description:
    form: videodisc
    extent: 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  abstract: "In 1898, after losing Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the U.S., Spain focused its colonial aims on northern Morocco, establishing a Spanish Protectorate in 1912. From 1920 to 1926, Spanish military attempts to conquer the territory were resisted by the guerrilla forces of Rif leader Abd el-Krim. Thousands of Spanish soldiers died-including 15,000 during a two-week period in 1921 known as the Defeat of Annual-and the Spanish Army responded with aerial bombings, chemical weapons and widespread atrocities. "The Moroccan labyrinth" reveals how this colonial conflict served as the prologue to the Spanish Civil War, with losses in the African war undermining the monarchy and politically emboldening the "African militarists," including generals such as Francisco Franco, who in 1936 launched a revolt against the Spanish Republic. Ironically, in order to escape famine and poverty, thousands of Moroccans enlisted in the Spanish Falangist movement and found themselves fighting for their former enemies in Spain against Republican forces. This documentary features rare archival footage, propaganda films of the era, contemporary interviews with elderly Moroccan combatants, their children and leading international historians, who discuss the Rif War, how the conflict influenced political developments in Spain, how Moroccan mercenaries were used as shock troops during the Spanish Civil War and then, despite financial promises, were immediately expelled from Spain after the Nationalist victory. "The Moroccan labyrinth" plumbs the political complexities of this little-known Spanish colonial war as crucial historical background to the Civil War, showing how thousands of Moroccans, the traditional enemies of Spain, became allies with Franco's nationalist forces and were exploited, if not maimed or killed, in a conflict that was never their own."--Container.
  note: en coproducción Canal Sur Televisión Andalucía ; Intermedia Producciones presenta ; guión y dirección, Julio Sánchez Veiga.
  note: Title from feature.
  note: Originally produced in 2007.
  note: Spanish title from Intermedia Producciones website.
  note: Videorecording.
  note: DVD-R.
  note: In Spanish with English subtitles in yellow.
  note: Director of photography, Mariano Agudo ; editing, Mariluz Domínguez ; original music, Luis Navarro.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-mr---
  subject:
    geographic: Morocco
    topic: History
    temporal: 1912-1956
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: Colonies
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 20th century
  record info:
    record content source: NDD
    record creation date: 091123
    record change date: 20151203084214.0
    record identifier: in00002865447
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng