Resumen :
Luis Buñuel, Luis García Berlanga, José Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura o Víctor Erice, entre otros, son nombres que inconscientemente se asocian a la cúspide artística de la cinematografía nacional, por encima de otros artífices de la industria como Carlos Arévalo, Juan de Orduña, Edgar Neville o Flo... Ver más
Luis Buñuel, Luis García Berlanga, José Antonio Bardem, Carlos Saura or Víctor Erice, among others, are names that are unconsciously associated with the artistic peak of national cinematography, above other industry architects such as Carlos Arévalo, Juan de Orduña, Edgar Neville or Florián Rey. For this reason, this work constitutes a look at the Spanish cinematography of Francoism through the perspective of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, first cousin of the main ideologist of the Falange, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, and director of the propaganda film Raza (1941). This film, whose screenplay was written by Francisco Franco himself, turned its director into one of the greatest exponents of the Spanish film industry, with hits such as El escándalo (1943), El destino se disculpa (1944), Mariona Rebull (1947) o Historias de la radio (1955). Titles that, in turn, not only contributed to nourish his status as a filmmaker, but also allowed him to ratify his relationship with the Regime two decades later when the government contacted him to direct the biographical documentary Franco, ese hombre (1964). In this way, in this project we analyse part of the filmography of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia in order to know his contribution to the history of Spanish cinema, as well as the ideological spectrum of his films with the aim of determining if his link with the Francoism is reflected in the rest of his cinema.
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