The opening of the Moscow archives allows us to understand History from new aspects.

Patrick Rotman, in collaboration with the historian Rémi Skoutelsky, puts his finger, in The Burns of History, on a wound that has barely healed: the role of Stalin during the Spanish Civil War.

Unpublished archive images from the funds of Russian and Spanish film libraries, testimonies from fighters from international brigades, and former political party officials show the confrontation.