The Man Who Was There
Overview
The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.
Top Cast
Luis Camacho
Laboratory Technician
Rafael Díaz
Typographer
Eduardo Estrada
Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Ramón Soria Breña
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Clara Irina Torrente
Young Pilar Chaves Jones
Diego de la Serna
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pilar Chaves Jones
Self - Daughter
María Isabel Cintas
Self - Biographer
Jorge Martínez Reverte
Self - Journalist
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Self - Writer
Andrés Trapiello
Self - Writer
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Juan Belmonte
Self - Bullfighter (archive footage)
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Self - Journalist (archive footage)
Joseph Goebbels
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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