The Rocío Case
Realizador Jose Luis Tirado
Países Spain
Duração 75 min
Sinopse
Rocío has passed into history as the first film to be banned by the law in the Spanish state after the abolition of cinema censorship in 1977. Directed by Fernando Ruiz Vergara, the film premiered in 1980 but was subsequently interdicted, and remains censured until today in accordance with the sentence passed by the Supreme Court in 1984, which condemned its author for a legal offense of libel against an individual who according to the film was the leader of the brutal repression that took place in the village of Almonte, the cradle of the Romería of El Rocío, during the military coup of 1936., The legal action against the film put an end to the career of the director, who went into self-exile in Portugal, where he lived until his death in 2011. Apart from being a top-quality production, Rocío is a benchmark in the history of documentary films in the Spanish state. The leading character of THE ROCÍO CASE is the film Rocío itself. It is structured along the lines of a Brechtian narration, led by a team comprising the authors of the film, those who participated in its making, friends and close collaborators as well as a group of speakers that includes historians, filmmakers, anthropologists, artists and activists whose works have included Fernando Ruiz Vergara’s film as a main subject., THE ROCÍO CASE necessarily leads one to reflect on how traditions come into being, cinema censorship, the role of women in celebratory rites, the significance of the political transition with regard to civil rights such as freedom of expression or the so-called democratic memory, amongst other subjects.
Rocío has passed into history as the first film to be banned by the law in the Spanish state after the abolition of cinema censorship in 1977. Directed by Fernando Ruiz Vergara, the film premiered in 1980 but was subsequently interdicted, and remains censured until today in accordance with the sentence passed by the Supreme Court in 1984, which condemned its author for a legal offense of libel against an individual who according to the film was the leader of the brutal repression that took place in the village of Almonte, the cradle of the Romería of El Rocío, during the military coup of 1936., The legal action against the film put an end to the career of the director, who went into self-exile in Portugal, where he lived until his death in 2011. Apart from being a top-quality production, Rocío is a benchmark in the history of documentary films in the Spanish state. The leading character of THE ROCÍO CASE is the film Rocío itself. It is structured along the lines of a Brechtian narration, led by a team comprising the authors of the film, those who participated in its making, friends and close collaborators as well as a group of speakers that includes historians, filmmakers, anthropologists, artists and activists whose works have included Fernando Ruiz Vergara’s film as a main subject., THE ROCÍO CASE necessarily leads one to reflect on how traditions come into being, cinema censorship, the role of women in celebratory rites, the significance of the political transition with regard to civil rights such as freedom of expression or the so-called democratic memory, amongst other subjects.