"What did you fight for?" This question makes the 96-years old Austrian Gerhard Hoffmann, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and of World War II who had been fighting against Fascism, very thoughtful: „You can’t describe that in a few words." NO PASARAN is looking for answers: The film goes on a journey across Europe to meet the last contemporary witnesses of these wars.In the focus of this multinational documentary film are the life paths and fates of Joseph and Vincent Almudever, Giovanni and Onorina Pesce, Rosario Sanchez Mora, Herman Scheerboom, Kurt Goldstein and Gerhard Hoffmann. When they were volunteering to join the fight, they all were teenagers. But nobody of them expected a 10 years´ odyssey over the battlefields and through the fascist concentration or extermination camps until the return back home.
"I enjoyed the film very much... the subject was intriguing." Bill Meyer, The Hollywood Progressive
"A documentary film which has long been overdue." German Film Academy
