The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: in the fratricidal Spain of 1936, in Bolshevik Russia, in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, in occupied Paris or in the bombed London of World War II; because his job was to walk, see and tell stories, and thus fight against tyrants, at a time when it was necessary to take sides in order not to be left alone; but he, a man of integrity to the bitter end, never did so.
Luis Camacho
as Laboratory Technician
Rafael Díaz
as Typographer
Eduardo Estrada
as Radio Broadcaster (voice)
Ramón Soria Breña
as Manuel Chaves Nogales
Clara Irina Torrente
as Young Pilar Chaves Jones
Diego de la Serna
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Pilar Chaves Jones
as Self - Daughter
María Isabel Cintas
as Self - Biographer
Jorge Martínez Reverte
as Self - Journalist
Antonio Muñoz Molina
as Self - Writer
Andrés Trapiello
as Self - Writer
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
