Prisoners of war (1938)

Spain.

Republican prisoners of war captured by Franco's troops during the Spanish Civil War.

A column of prisoners marches.

Different types of prisoners.

A prisoner camp in a monastery courtyard.

They sit and lie on the ground, eat baked potatoes.

A prisoner shaves his comrade, a prisoner plays the accordion.

Prisoners at a notice board.

Prisoners of different nationalities.

A Japanese man writes hieroglyphs and Spanish letters next to them.

A black man talks to his comrades in misfortune.

Spain.

Treatment of sick prisoners in a hospital.

Nurses with the sick and wounded.

A wounded man with a guitar plays and sings a folk song.

A nurse bandages the arm of a wounded man.

A certificate from the hospital.

Wards, wounded men lie on beds.

A wounded man without arms looks at a cross on the wall.

The wounded on crutches go to the building of Spain.

Prisoners march, they are at various jobs.

Prisoners at the factory at the machines.

Prisoners at the restoration of the blown up bridge, at the construction of the dam, in the quarry.

Lunch break, distribution of food.

Prisoners plow with oxen.

Work in the quarry, mine carts with rock go.

Re-education of prisoners in the fascist spirit.

Smiling faces, a fist straightens into an open palm, hands rise in a fascist salute.