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Despite being one of Stanley Kubrick's greatest's films and therefore a cinema masterpiece, 'A Clockwork Orange' was banned by Spain's Franco government, a fascist dictatorship that had ruled the country for over 35 years after a cruel civil war. The film's visuals clashed head-on with the regime's strict moral codes and censors who wished to clamp down on any subversive ideas entering Spain.
Surprisingly, however, the film premiered uncensored at a long-running religious film festival, the Seminci in Valladolid, located in one of Spain's most conservative cities. How could something like this even occur?
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Release date: 1 March 2022
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Movies the giraffe watched in 2022: January (38 movies items)"First viewing - Jan. 23rd HBO Max A Clockwork Orange is one of my top ten films, so I was curious to check out this documentary about the film being initially banned in Spain. It was interesting learning the history and hearing from some of the people involved in the local cinemas from that time period. I also dug that they got Malcolm McDowell to narrate the whole thing. By the end of it I wanted to revisit the film again, but alas sleep won out. Perhaps soon. But yes, if you're a fan of the f"
the giraffe rated this 7/10 2 years, 2 months ago
