Benjamina Miyar Díaz (1888-1961) led an unusual life in her house on calle del Agua in Corao, Asturias, at the foot of the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain: she was a photographer and watchmaker for more than forty years, but she also fought in her own humble and heroic way against General Franco's dictatorship.
Cinematography
Asturian landscapes that swallow whole decades of silence.
Direction
Viada Caso reconstructs a life the dictatorship tried to erase.
Director
Celia Viada Caso
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The maquis were anti-Franco guerrillas who hid in Picos de Europa for years; Miyar's village was literal resistance terrain.
Female photographers of the Spanish Civil War were rarely credited; Miyar's dual identity as watchmaker let her move unseen.
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