Dos comedias. Traducir la postdictadura en el cine
Two Comedies. Translating Post-Dictatorships for the Cinema

Summary/Abstract: This article is a comparative analysis of two comedies. The first one, ”Tie me up, tie me down!”, is a romantic Spanish comedy, directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The second one, ”Philanthropy”, is a black Romanian comedy, directed by Nae Caranfil. The author of the article tries to identify the main similarities between the two movies, but also the traits that make them so different, by taking into account the social and political context of the two countries. The article tries to give an answer to the following questions: is there any moral goodness left in two countries? Can it be recovered through the sense of humor? Several aspects have been analysed, among which stand the difficulties posed by the translation of the movies, the theme of compassion that governs our postmodern world and the cultural elements that define the two societies, fifteen years after the fall of the two dictatorships.

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