The Anarchist's Wife

The Anarchist's Wife
The Anarchist's Wife
	Film poster
Directed by	Marie Noelle; Peter Sehr;
Written by	Marie Noelle; Ray Loriga;
Produced by	Marie Noelle; Norbert Llaras; Phillippe Planells; Peter Sehr; Jordi Rediu;
Starring	Juan Diego Botto; María Valverde; Ivana Baquero;
Music by	Zacarías M. de la Riva
Release dates	June 2008 (Munich); 25 October 2008 (Seminci); 23 January 2009 (Spain);
Languages	Spanish; French;

The Anarchist's Wife (Spanish: La mujer del anarquista) is a 2008 Spanish-Franco-German film directed by Maria Noelle and Peter Sehr [de].^[1] It stars María Valverde, Juan Diego Botto and Ivana Baquero.

Plot

The plot derives from the experience of a child's parents. Paloma's father, an anarchist, fought in Madrid against Francisco Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He was deported to a concentration camp, then fought for the French Resistance. His wife, with two young children, never gave up hope of seeing him again.

Cast

Juan Diego Botto as Justo Álvarez Calderón^[2]^[3]
María Valverde as Manuela^[2]
Alba Barragán as Paloma (child)^[2]
Ivana Baquero as Paloma (teenager)^[2]
Irene Visedo as Paloma (adult)^[2]
Nina Hoss as Lenin^[3]
Jean-Marc Barr as Pierre^[3]
Pere Arquillué [ca] as Jaime^[3]
Nathalie Grauwin as Marie^[3]
Biel Durán [es] as Luis^[3]
Irene Montalà as Pilar^[3]
Adrià Collado as Francisco^[3]
Laura Morante as Lucienne^[3]

Release

The film screened at the Filmfest München in June 2008, winning the festival's Bernhard Wicki Prize.^[4] It also screened at the 53rd Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) on 25 October 2008.^[5] The film was theatrically released in Spain, under the title La mujer del anarquista on 23 January 2019.^[3] The German title was Die Frau des Anarchisten.