The historic workers' center has become the common home, a shelter for all struggles.
But the spectacular growth of the CNT cannot go unnoticed at a particularly delicate moment for the country, if not for the regime change resulting from the economic crisis.
El Entusiasmo is also the story of a defeat.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTS
The enthusiasm sees the light almost ten years after having traced the first guidelines of this idea.
Starting a project without producers or television channels was going to be very difficult and it was more difficult than I expected.
Only my ignorance in the face of what was approaching me, my passion for history and the desire to be consistent and rigorous with the facts portrayed, finally allowed me to bring it to fruition.
The most complicated issue was not being able to count on the confidences of the authors who filmed, recorded, photographed, or drew the materials that make up the documentary.
Their example of independence has illuminated the most difficult moments which, as always, are inseparable from the sweetest ones.
Reviewing the past means recovering the lights and shadows of what happened, removing the cold or still warm ash to show the facts and experiences.
Since everything changes, people and things, listening to the voice of the past can only help us better face the challenges of the present and the future.
This is the task of the historian, far from Manichaeism, from "pamphlets" and from hagiographies.
With greater or lesser success, this was the horizon that guided me in tackling El enthusiasm.”
