While at War

Sometimes silence is the worst lie

A morally rigorous historical drama about an intellectual's crisis of conscience as idealism collides with the brutal reality of civil war.

Salamanca, Spain, 1936. In the early days of the military rebellion that began the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), writer Miguel de Unamuno supports the uprising in the hope that the prevailing political chaos will end. But when the confrontation becomes bloody, Unamuno must question his initial position.