Pomiędzy okaleczeniem a autorską strategią. Wpływ cenzury na twórczość Luisa Garcíi Berlangi
Between Mutilation and Author’s Strategy: The Influence of Censorship in Luis García Berlanga’s Works

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the complex impact of Francoist censorship on Luis García Berlanga’s works. Infilms shot during General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, the Spanish director developed a numberof auteur strategies that allowed him to express veiled criticism of the regime, which escaped theattention of censors. The game with censorship requirements became characteristic of Berlanga’sworks and influenced their reception by domestic audiences, who interpreted some scenes as polit-ical allusions not intended by the author. The analysis also shows the impact of censor interferencein the final form of some films and attempts at eliminating their controversial message, as well ascases of delayed Spanish distribution or the realisation of the director’s boldest projects, which werepremiered or could only be shot after the fall of the dictatorship.

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