"Only now, after forty years of press censorship (under Franco), can we begin to ask the unanswered questions that have troubled the complacency of a new generation: What was the purpose of the Spanish Civil War? What did it solve? What really happened? During the last years of the Franco regime, Spanish filmmaker Basilio Martin Patino set out to find the answers for himself and his generation. Working underground, at great personal risk, Patino uncovered Spanish film footage that had been hidden since the Civil War...tracked down and interviewed combatants and survivors on both sides...revisited the battlegrounds which had marked the bloody course of the war.... Caudillo is an extraordinarily moving film, its subject matter heightened by Patino's honesty and artistry." Films for the Humanities