Franco a-t-il sauvé des juifs ?

Following the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, many "sefarade" (of Spanish origin) Jewish communities developed in the Balkans and around the Mediterranean. These communities were rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century and the Republic granted them Spanish nationality. At the time of the Second World War, these Jews sometimes took advantage of their status as Spanish to escape the policy of extermination carried out by the Nazis. The film looks at three precise cases : France, Greece and Hungary, countries in which Spanish diplomats sometimes enabled Jews, on the point of being deported, to be repatriated to Spain, and thus obtained the medal of the Just in Israel. Using witnesses who are still alive, historians, and with an arrangement of pictures from archives, this film tries to shed light on little known facts and ask some questions about the individual reactions of diplomats with regard to the choices of a more than ambiguous power.