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.
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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)
