El Quinto Jinete [DVD]

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez writes the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, between the fall of 1915 and the spring of 1916, when the Allied troops were defending the harassment of the German Empire on the Marne front in the middle of the World War. While we listen to Blasco Ibáñez in his studio on rue Rennequin, Paris, how he writes journalistic articles in favor of the allies, his state of mind, the disputes with his editor, the visit that the president of the French Republic facilitates to the In front of the Marne and Reims, the persecution he suffers for his ideas, and how this orchestrates the writing of the novel, a television director has set out to unravel the skein of opinions, documents and images that surround the writer in the face of an assignment. to commemorate the beginning of World War I. To do this, you have to document yourself, investigate the origins and scope of the novel, conduct interviews with scholars of the work of Blasco Ibáñez and specialists in the great world war.