abstract:Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War.
Salamanca: the university town that Franco made hisbaseearlyintheSpanishcivil war has an image ofthecaudillo chiselled above the archways of its centralPlaza mayor.
Though from 1946 he lived in Rome, his followers tended to be close to the Francoist cause, and several served as ministers in the caudillo's government of the 1950s and 1960s.