Guernica (2016 film)

Guernica (Spanish/Basque: Gernika) is a 2016 Spanish-British-American war romance drama film directed by Koldo Serra, starring James D'Arcy, María Valverde and Jack Davenport. It is the first feature film made about the 1937 bombing of Guernica.

The film centres on an American journalist (D'Arcy) covering the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica, who falls in love with a censor (Valverde) for the Spanish Republican government. The journalist's character is loosely based on George Steer, a British reporter who covered the war and bombing for the UK media, as well as Ernest Hemingway and Robert Capa.

Cast

 * James D'Arcy as Henry Howell
 * María Valverde as Teresa
 * Jack Davenport as Vasyl, her Soviet supervisor
 * Ingrid García Jonsson as Marta, French photographer
 * Álex García as Marco, Portuguese journalist
 * Bárbara Goenaga as Carmen
 * Joachim Paul Assböck as Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen
 * Burn Gorman as Soviet consul
 * Markus Oberhauser as German captain

Production
Filming took place in the summer of 2015 in and around Bilbao.

Release
The film premiered at the Málaga Film Festival on 26 April 2016, the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica.