With a cast led by Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif, “And the day of revenge has arrived” is an American production of the year 1964, a historical and war drama, directed by Fred Zinnemann and based on the novel by the writer Emeric Pressburger , “Killing a mouse on Sunday.”
It is a film about the Spanish Civil War, and, more specifically, about the early postwar years, which, of course, was banned in Spain during the Franco regime.
The feature film revolves around the last years of Francisco Sabaté Llopart, a Spanish guerrilla, a libertarian maquis who went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War.
Despite having passed a few years, when Sabaté returns to Spain to see his mother, there is a civil guard who has not forgotten him, and he is going to persecute and harass him to the last consequences.