There was a Spain, not so far away, in which one could not see With skirts it’s crazy. This film was censored until 1973 because, because it featured two men dressed as women, they said it encouraged homosexuality. In this Spain, we didn’t even see him With skirts it’s crazy wasn’t even heard Imagine by John Lennon because, of course, a song that spoke of peace without flags or borders was not very well received. For anything.
Under Franco there was censorship and news looked like advertisements. They had newspapers that published propaganda and in the NO-DO news that they showed in the cinemas, there was a man with a stuffy nose who only talked about Franco. “I studied modern history and there were a lot of history books that we didn’t have access to because they didn’t exist. Most of the most interesting films we could hear about couldn’t be seen because they were censored. the bookstores were very limited and still Catholic-leaning and very traditional and very wonderful and very boring,” says director Azucena RodrĂguez.
Turnaround: how Spain got rid of dandruff is a podcast from elDiario.es with script and production by Mar Abad and Javier Pascual and sound production by Andreu Quesada. The illustrations in the series are by MĂriam Persand. A podcast produced in collaboration with the Celebration of 50 Years of Freedom in Spain.
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