En los años setenta, en plena dictadura franquista, un circo español asombró al mundo: el Circo de los Muchachos, que era la cara visible de Benposta, una república de niños dirigida por el padre Silva: la historia del auge y caída de una de las utopías más singulares del siglo XX.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-11-22
Duración: 49 min
Sinopsis: Galicia, 1960s. With fifteen children and a motorbike, Father Silva creates Benposta, a city governed by children called upon to change the world whose message finds an unusual showcase that quickly triumphs worldwide.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-11-22
Duración: 57 min
Sinopsis: 1970-1975: After disastrous beginnings, the Circo de los Muchachos achieves unprecedented international success and Benposta becomes an educational benchmark; but the children grow up and want to take an active part in its future, thus the Priest's leadership is questioned.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-11-22
Duración: 54 min
Sinopsis: 1975-1985: The Circo de los Muchachos tours the five continents in an unusual journey full of excesses and surreal experiences; while, in Benposta, far from the glamour of the circus, there are major difficulties: the Priest has been unable to keep up with the pace of democratic Spain and is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-11-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 1985-2000: Problems worsen when, in the initially successful Spanish Welfare State, Benposta runs out of children and the Priest has to go to America and Africa in search of new members; while an urban development plan threatens to destroy the utopia and a merciless war breaks out, pitting politics and the media against each other.
Fecha de emisión: 2024-11-22
Duración: 57 min
Sinopsis: 2000s: The former muchachos revolt to save Benposta or dethrone the leader, a fratricidal struggle that darkens the last years of the Priest. What remains today of that utopia?
