Filming begins on 'Regresa El Cepa', a documentary about 'The crime of Cuenca'

Forty years ago Pilar Miró released this controversial film that would be military kidnapped and its director prosecuted. Now, a documentary, directed by Víctor Matellano, addresses what the filming of 'The Crime of Cuenca' was like.

Victor Matellano filming has started El Cepa returns, a documentary scripted by Antonio Duran, Emeterio Díez Puertas, author of the book Blow to the transition, and Matellano himself who addresses what the filming of the film was like The Cuenca crime.

Forty years ago Pilar Miró released this controversial film that would be military kidnapped and its director prosecuted. A film that would later become one of the great successes of Spanish cinema and its premiere an example of the advancement of democracy and freedom of expression.

As in the real case and in the movie, The Strain comes back to tell it. The actor who played The Strain In Pilar Miró's film, Guillermo Montesinos returns to the filming locations forty years later, the real ones of the Grimaldos Case, to meet the neighbors.

His visit serves as the guiding thread of the documentary in which specialists, jurists, former institutional officials, scriptwriters, members of the team and actors from Pilar Miró's film, such as Mercedes Sampietro and Héctor Alterio, will be interviewed.

As a film director, after numerous short films such as those selected for the Goya awards, Uncle Jess y The glen of the English, premiered at the Cannes festival, Víctor Matellano debuts in the field of feature film with the documentary Claws! A trip through Spanish Horror. This will be followed by fiction feature films Wax, Vampyres y Stop Over in Hell, released internationally in fifteen countries, with which it has won several awards.

Matellano has highlighted that “if there is an important film in the period of the Spanish transition, it is The Cuenca crime. “It is much more than a film, it contributed to many changes, including the code of military justice.”

"Talking today about the kidnapping of that film means reflecting on freedom of expression then and now. I keep putting myself in the shoes of Pilar Miró, a female filmmaker in Spain in the late seventies, knowing that she could be the protagonist of a court martial for declaring herself the author of a film about proven historical facts...", concludes Matellano.