Alfredo Mayo (José Churruca), exceptionnaly "given in" by CIFESA. Ana Mariscal (Marisol), José Nieto (Pedro Churruca), Blanca de Silos (Isabel Churruca) , Rosina Mendía (Isabel Acuña de Churruca),  Julio Rey de las Heras (Pedro Churruca, Padre), Luís Arroyo (Jaime de Churruca), Raúl Cancio (Luis Etcheverría), Manuel Arbó, Pilar Soler & the children Mercedes Llofríu, Eduardo González, Consuelo Loygorri, Angel Martínez, Francisco Camoiras, José Crevillent, Juan Calvo, Vicente Soler, Fernando Fresno, Antonio Armet, Pablo Alvarez Rubio, Fulgencio Nogueras, Domingo Ribas, Manuel Soto, Pablo Hidalgo, Ignacio Mateo, Antonio Zaballos, Santiago Rivero, Luis Latorre, Horacio Socías, Erasmo Pascual, Joaquín Regález, María Caso, Carmen Trejo, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia (lorry driver who moves José Chrruca from Madrid to the franquist area), Mario Berriatúa (teenager, uncredited).

The mother : Isabel  Doña Acuña de Churruca (Rosina Mendía) remains alone with her four children: Pedro, José, Jaime and  Isabelita.

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(1) Blanca de Silos is Isabel Churruca
 
(2) During the wedding mass, the brothers Churruca : the s/lieutenant Jaime Churruca (Luís Arroyo), Pedro Churruca (José Nieto), the captain José  Churruca (Alfredo Mayo)

(3) During the party after the mass, José discovers Marisol played by Ana Mariscal,  the best friend of his sister Isabel.

But after the wedding, Pedro, the elder asks his inherance to pay his political career  and  cause José's anger. Without Jaime's intervention, they would had been fighting.


The mother of the 4 children of the Churruca family died. The Sd Spanish Republic has been promulgate in 1931. But 5 years later, the government is not able to maintain order and preserve the citizens from the violent acts of the the extremists. The spanish civil war breaks out (1936-07-18). And during  the 33 months of the war (until 1939-March) we can see the different ways which are following by the three brothers Churruca. This second part is beginning with the spreading of the news of the rebellion of some militars in the Protectorate of the Spanish Morroco.

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(1) Pedro (José Nieto) , deputy ot the second spanish republic, has a main role  in Madrid. 

(2) Jaime ( Luis Arroyo ) has left his military career to become a monk. At the beginning of the war, Jaime calls Pedro for getting help to the childrens of the orhanage of the Brothers. Jaime is shot by the milicians in a beach,  with his  prior and the other  monks.

(3) José (Alfredo Mayo), franquist officer enters in Madrid with civilian clothes to give a message. Discovered, he is shot. Marisol is allowed to bring back the corpse. But José is only injured. son corps. With the heilp of Marisol and General Franco partisans, herejoins the "other Spain" and goes on the  civil war.

At the end of the war, José sees again Marisol	The last picture of "Raza" : "The victory parade in Madrid"

The general Franco, the chief of the new Spanish state, wrote in 1940, with the name of  Jaime de Andrade, a novel "Raza" . The title can surprise people who don't understand Spanish. It is more a reference for the idea of a Spanish nation, the nation of all people united under the Spain banner and its great empire.  And to prove it, the picture "Raza" begins with the evocation of the horrible year of 1898 for Spain.  Then the author wants to explain that Spain would be just about to disappear because of the division of the Spanish people, division born from politics.  Jaime de Andrade legitimates the military mutiny as a task of national salvation.  The  director of this picture is  José Luis  Sáenz de Heredia who has worked with Luis Buñuel before the civil war.

Novel "Raza" by Jaime de Andrade - Ed. 1940	Poster by the Spanish designer Enrique López Reiz (1942)

On the 3rd of July 1950, the picture "Race" knows a new premiere under the title of "Spirit of a Race". But it is not the only difference. We have to note, too, the disappearances of allusions (or scenes) too obviously against the north- Americans, (in particular about the year 1898), or too favorable with the Falangist party created in 1933 by José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936) and declared illegal in 1936 by the "Frente Popular" .

At last, the voices of the actors from the 1942 version are dubbed by the voices of the actors who have dubbed in Spanish in 1949  “Gone with the wind”.

That means:
Even Alfredo Mayo, your dear Alfredo Mayo has not
Alfredo Mayo’s voice!

An order has been given: all the rolls of “Race” original version have to be destroyed. The picture “Race” seems to have disappeared forever. It’s only about fifty years later that a very spoilt and uncompleted roll is found in a store of a Spanish itinerant projectionist. And better too! After the fall of the wall in Berlin researches in the UFA Studios archives in ex East-Berlin and ex German Democratic Republic, permit to “excavate” an other original roll which has been conserved in a “miraculous” perfect state.
Only in 2002 people can discover the two versions in DVD by Divisa Ediciones (Divisa Home Video Spain). In 2006 the same producer has commerzialised two packs of Spanish films about the civil war, the first one with four films made 1975, between them, of the Raza in its two versions, and the second one with 4 films made after 1975.