A Forbidden Orange

2021

Spanish

6.3

♡ 7

38%

1970s

cinema on cinema

controversial subject

Documentary

film censorship

film festival

franco regime (francoism)

Pedro González Bermúdez Director

Sophia Loren as Self

Malcolm McDowell as Self

Ava Gardner as Self

James Stewart as Self

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1971, was banned by the strict Franco government. However, the film was finally premiered, without going through censorship, during the 20th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid Film Festival, on April 24, 1975. How was this possible?