El crimen de Cuenca (1980)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Pilar Miró

Escritores:

Pilar Miró (dialogue)
Juan Antonio Porto (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 agosto 1981 (Spain)

Género:

Drama | Historia

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Shocking!

Reparto

Amparo Soler Leal	...	Varona
Héctor Alterio	...	Isasa
Daniel Dicenta	...	Gregorio Valerio Contreras
José Manuel Cervino	...	León Sánchez Gascón
Mary Carrillo	...	Juana
Francisco Casares	...	Taboada
Eduardo Calvo	...	Amo
José Vivó	...	Don Rufo
Félix Rotaeta	...	Secretario
Guillermo Montesinos	...	José María Grimaldos López 'El Cepa'
Pedro del Río	...	Alvarez-Neyra
Mercedes Sampietro	...	Alejandra
Nicolás Dueñas	...	Juez primero
Antonio Canal	...	Labarga
Juan Jesús Valverde	...	Jáuregui

También conocida como:

The Cuenca Crime (USA)

Duración:

88 min | 92 min

País:

Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

France:-16 | Spain:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Belmonte, Cuenca, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Compañía:

In-Cine Compañía Industrial Cinematográfica

Errores:

Continuidad: When they were arrested it was stated that they were to be held in solitary confinement. They are then immediately shown being held in the same cell.

Shocking!

An interesting fact - the director of this film, Pilar Miro, had to fight her way out of being put into prison after she directed this film, which was delayed two years between filming and release!

The torture scenes are horrific, but there is also the comic element of the supposedly dead victim of the crime returning to the village gleefully declaring "I'm alive!" His 'death' (he in fact ran away) was the reason for which the main characters underwent torture, confessed to a crime they didn't commit and spent 17 years in prison.

Criticism at the time of release came from the Guardia Civil (the Civil Guard) who objected to their portrayal in the film as bloodthirsty and corrupt. At a time when censorship laws had been relaxed, the director chose the most graphic way possible to illustrate truths which had been hidden from the Spanish public for so long. Objections to this only served to make the public even more keen to see the film!

This kind of graphic representation of images to Spanish viewers might also explain the modern trend for the horrific television news reporting style in Spain!