"This film is based on paintings, drawings and sculptures made by Picasso between the years 1902 and 1949." ""Guernica," painted during the Spanish Civil War, provided the main focus of this film." "We would like to thank as well as the Museum of Modern Art and the Louise Leiris Gallery for providing us with all the necessary documents." "Guernica... is a small town in the Biscaye region, the traditional capital of the Basque Country." "That's where the oak tree became the sacred symbol of Basque freedom and traditions." "Guernica's relevance is mainly historic and sentimental." "On April 26th, 1937, in the early afternoon hours, a series of Nazi planes incessantly bombed Guernica for three and a half hours." "The city was burnt to the ground." "2,000 people died-- all civilians." "The bombing was part of an experiment to determine the combined effects of incendiary and explosive bombs on civilian populations." "Friendly faces by the fire, friendly faces in the cold" "Oppressed, humiliated, beaten, kept in the dark," "Friendly faces faced with nothing" "Poor faces, sacrificed" "Your death will be a warning to all" "Death, an overthrown heart" "They made you pay for bread with your life" "They made you pay for the sky, the earth," "Water and sleep, with your life" "They made you pay for misery" "Sweet actors," "So sad but so sweet," "Actors in perpetual drama," "You weren't expecting death." "The fear and courage to live and die" "Death, so difficult and simple" "Women and children have the same treasure in their eyes" "Men safeguard it the way they can." "People in Guernica are simple people." "We've read it in the paper, over a cup of coffee:" "somewhere in Europe, an army of killers is marching over humanity." "Somewhere in Europe..." "at our doorstep." "Bullets finish off the dying." "Bullets play with children, better than the wind..." "Women and children have the same red roses in their eyes." "Their blood for all to see" "Odd to think we were scared of lightning, scared of thunder." "How naive." "Thunder's an angel and lighting its wings." "We'd never been to the basement, for fear of seeing nature's horrors." "Wearing helmets and boots-- polite and handsome men-- aviators drop their bombs." "With such care." "Down on the ground, chaos." "Blood on the men." "Blood on the beast" "A harvest, repugnant and more disgusting" "Than the butchers, so pure and clean." "Try to control a beast feeling impending death." "Try to tell the mother why her child died." "Try to bring comfort in destruction." "One night remains, that of war," "Sister of destitution and daughter of death, repugnant, frightening." "Monuments of distress" "Beautiful ruins" "Mines and fields" "Brothers, here you are, rotting" "And broken bones." "The earth turns in your orbits" "You, rotting desolation" "Death interrupted the comfort of time" "You are now left to worms and ravens" "When you were our most vibrant promise." "Under the dead oak tree in Guernica, to the ruins of Guernica, under Guernica's pure skies, a man came back, holding a bleating lamb and a dove in his heart." "For all men, he's singing the pure song of rebellion, grateful for love, rejecting oppression." "A man is singing." "The wasps of his pain rush into the broken horizon." "The bees of his songs made their nests in the heart of humanity." "Guernica" "Innocence will overcome destruction." "Guernica." "THE END"