The Cuenca Crime

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Marco L @decatur555 Mar 15, 2025 This isn't an easy film to watch, and it doesn't want to be. Pilar Miró tells one of Spain's worst judicial injustices without filters, and the torture scenes are raw enough that you want to look away. That's the point: they show a system willing to manufacture culprits just to close a case. Daniel Dicenta and José Manuel Cervino are devastating, and the bond between their characters makes the suffering harder to take. The photography adds to the sense of suffocation, García Abril's score never overplays the tragedy, and the supporting cast (Fernando Rey, Héctor Alterio, Amparo Soler Leal) is rock solid. It can be a bit heavy-handed, and some scenes stretch the pain longer than needed. But it's a necessary testimony about how easily a truth gets built from lies, and about a society that preferred to condemn rather than doubt. See more Emilio T @MilloTPue Apr 21, 2018 The movie is not only important because the real fact that changed politics and law in Spain, but because, when it was released in 1983, its director was accused of attacking security forces of the nation, and almost went to judge, indicating that freedom of expression was not fully developed in the country. Torture scenes are hard, so, it is good that you know it. See more Sep 17, 2011 I don't think this was every released in the US, but if you can see it, do so. When a man disappears from his town, suspicion is cast on two men who are tortured until they accuse one another of the crime. But with the victim merely missing, was there even a crime? See more Nov 17, 2009 Impactante y brutal, sobre todo por la realidad de los hechos... Los valores que nos desvelan esta historia no tienen parangón, la amistad, el perdón, pero por sobre todas las cosas la dignidad... Al final uno se siente un poco vacío, no en vano, pierden los que menos lo merecían…. See more Nov 16, 2009 En DVD Impactante y en su tiempo polemica pelicula que denuncia que pone sobre el tapete los oscuros entresijos de la justicia ciega en un caso real ocurrido en Cuenca. Rodada de una manera cruda y en todo lo posible imparcial tratando de retratar de una manera bien lograda una epoca de la España preguerra. Basada en hechos reales. See more Jul 20, 2009 LETTERBOX. Concisa y algo convencional y sensacionalista, pero logra no desviarse mucho de su camino (en historia y estilo) antes de llegar a un final conmovedor. / Concise and somewhat conventional and sensationalistic, but manages to not deviate too much from its path (both in story and style) before reaching its moving finale. See more Read all reviews

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