Carlos Saura – who won the Golden Bear in Berlin for this film – was, together with Berlanga and Bardem, one of the directors who proved that good cinema could be made circumventing the censorship during Franco’s dictatorship. Considered as an allegory of the fratricide clash which meant the Spanish Civil War, the film has lately reached an unexpected popularity given the politically polarized and frayed atmosphere existing nowadays.

La caza

SCREENING: “La Caza” Spain, 1966 (84’)

SYNOPSIS: José, Paco and Luis, three middle-aged men who fought in the “national” side during the Spanish Civil War, meet in a village of Castilla to hunt rabbits, accompanied by young Enrique. But the hunting journey will stir up deep latent frustrations and rancours within the group. La Caza, which won the Silver Bear for the Best director in Berlin, was compared by critics with the most avant-garde films of that period. It had a remarkable influence on directors such as Sam Peckinpah, who found in this film a source of stylistic and thematic inspiration.

In order to establish comparisons and distinctions between the Spanish sixties and present times, the film will be explained by Juan Rodriguez Teruel, professor of Political Science in the University of Valencia and founder publisher of the digital platform of political analysis “Agenda Pública”.