La forja de un rebelde

La forja de un rebelde is a Spanish-German television series directed by Mario Camus adapting the autobiographical book trilogy The Forging of a Rebel by Arturo Barea. It originally aired on TVE1 in 1990. Premise The plot is an adaptation of the autobiographical book trilogy The Forging of a Rebel (La forja, La ruta and La llama). Tracking the life of Arturo Barea (a left-wing Republican), it spans from 1907 to the Fall of Madrid to the Francoist forces in April 1939, in the last rales of the Spanish Civil War. It also accounts for the period when the leading character was destined for military conscription in the midst of the Moroccan War. The story is the account of a man defeated in the Civil War who went on into exile, entailing a homage to the victims of Francoism. Cast