Trivia

The final still frame, as the final scene, show a large building set in downtown Gijón, in the Plaza del Parchís. The building was the headquarter of the Consejo Interprovincial de Asturias y León. Usually they met too in the Teatro Dindurra (actual Teatro Jovellanos), set in the Paseo de Begoña, for their public apparitions.

The opening scene shows a cloudy mount that progressively is covering with fog. This mount is El Mazucu, belonging to the El Cuera mountain range, located in the municipality of Llanes (East to Asturias). On September 1937 it was the last place of Asturias where Franquist soldiers faced against the militias that they still defending the Second Republic previous to the final victory of the fascism on Asturias a month later.

Not counting the opening and ending scene, the movie is mainly a succession of still photos made by Asturian photographer Constantino Suárez and some paint canvas of Nicanor Piñole. These photos are extracted from the Museo del Pueblo de Asturias, set in Gijón (Asturias), belonging to an archive with more of 9,000 photos that it was bought by the Gijón's City Hall at late 80s-early 90s, taken by Suárez throughout during the 30s years. This archive is available for free consultation online.

In the ending credits there is a list with the names of the militiamen who appears in the still photos: José Enrique Menéndez Vega, Manuel José García Rodríguez, Xaime Fernández Menéndez, Juan Luis Pérez Isla, María Mercedes Fernández Álvarez, Mónica Ordóñez Menéndez, Elías González Pensado, Irene García Lino, Lara García Fernández, Héctor García Carbajal, David González Palomares and Félix Feito Álvarez.

The documentary title pays tribute to the canvas of the same name, painted by Nicanor Piñole on 1937 when he was asked to make a canvas about the Spanish Civil War on Asturias.