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.

Cast

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Luis Camacho

Laboratory Technician

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Rafael Díaz

Typographer

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Eduardo Estrada

Radio Broadcaster (voice)

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Ramón Soria Breña

Manuel Chaves Nogales

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Clara Irina Torrente

Young Pilar Chaves Jones

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Diego de la Serna

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Pilar Chaves Jones

Self - Daughter

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María Isabel Cintas

Self - Biographer

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Jorge Martínez Reverte

Self - Journalist

Antonio Muñoz Molina

Self - Writer

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Andrés Trapiello

Self - Writer

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Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

Self - Politician (archive footage)