WINNER International Competition Festival del Documentario d´Abruzzo 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts 2016 - OFFICIAL SELECTION International Competition Festival del Documentario d´Abruzzo 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION CIFFI Colour International Film Festival of India 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION EKO International Film Festival 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION MEDIMED - Nomads of Documentary 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION Kolkata International Film Festival - OFFICIAL SELECTION Out of Africa International Film Festival 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION UK International Veterans Film Festival Aberyswyth 2016 - OFFICIAL SELECTION Sose International Film Festival 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION Naples Human Rights Film Festival 2015 - OFFICIAL SELECTION I Filmmaker International Film Festival 2015

What did you fight for?" This question makes the 96-years old Austrian Gerhard Hoffmann, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and of the Second World War 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 Almudever and his brother Vincent Almudever (France), Giovanni Pesce and his wife Onorina Pesce (Italy), Rosario Sanchez Mora (Spain), Herman Scheerboom (Netherlands), Kurt Goldstein (Germany) and Gerhard Hoffmann (Austria).When they were volunteering to join the fight, they all were teenagers. But nobody of them expected a 10 years´ odyssey over the battlefields of Europe and through the fascist concentration or extermination camps until the return back home.

"A documentary film which has long been overdue." German Film Academy
" I enjoyed the film very much... the subject was intriguing." Bill Meyer, The Hollywood Progressive

"With his documentary No Pasarán the German Daniel Burkholz has created a document of great historical value." Maria Prieto Vazquez, Cadena SER

"Bravo!!!!" Paca Rimbau Hérnandez, Circulo Machado

"A statement about the spirit that keeps Europe together." KINO.de

"Congratulations for your wonderful work of „memoria historia“." Alex Anfruns, INVESTIG'ACTION

"No doubt, this film will catch the interest of the democratic and freedom loving world." Vincent Almudever, Resistance fighter in the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.