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Director: Luis G Berlanga
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From Time Out Film Guide
This is a comic Trojan horse and perhaps the first great Spanish film. When a commission for a folkloric musical to make Lolita Sevilla a star fell to the secretly pro-communist UNINCI production company, Bardem and Berlanga used the cash to show how all the Francoist world was a stage in a tall tale of a drab Castilian village that does itself up in Andalusian glad rags in order to attract dollars from the Marshall Plan. An amazing satire of what Spain and Spanishness was reduced to during the dictatorship, cooked up with equal parts anarchy and compassion and flavoured like an Ealing comedy.Author: RSt
Cast & crew
Director: Luis G Berlanga
Producer: Vicente Sempere, JC Valencia
Cast: Lolita Sevilla, Manolo Morán, José Isbert, Alberto Romea, Elvira Quintillá, Luis Pérez de Léon, Féliz Fernández, Fernando Aguirre, Fernando Rey full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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