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Title The Stolen
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
Java Films, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 min.) : flv file, sound
Summary Shortly after the Spanish Civil War, up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from "undesirable" families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco's Secret police. Decades later, some of these stolen children try desperately to find and reconnect with their biological families. It began as a way of stopping a new generation of Republican supporters from emerging. However, it continued until the early 1990s decades after Franco's death for economic reasons. Poor women or single mothers would enter a church-run hospital to give birth and be told that their child had died during labor. The babies would then be placed in "appropriate" wealthy families, usually in exchange for a donation. We follow Lily, one of the thousands of illegally-adopted babies, as she tries to track down her birth family
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Event Originally produced by Java Films in 2013
Notes In French
Subject History, Modern.
Political science.
Political science.
History, Modern.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Gordillo Hidalgo, Juan, filmmaker
Mercier, Sandrine, filmmaker
Java Films (Firm)