Dos crímenes por semana. El caso de EL CASO

2016 · Documentary · 58 min. · Spain

Dos crímenes por semana. El caso de EL CASO

In the late fifties, in Spain, under Franco's pompous dictatorship that exerted a tight grip on press and media, colorful journalist and entrepreneur Eugenio Suárez founded on his living room a popular weekly magazine that had a strong impact on the country. EL CASO, that was his name, was an instant success with its mix of crime stories, sensational news, funny anecdotes. Regarded as a sensationalist publication for the illiterate, it produced some of the best journalism of its time, covering real life in a time when magazines were splattered with official news, forced to print the regime vision by a strong censorship. Proof is it had some well respected readers: Nobel Prize Camilo José Cela, acclaimed writer Robert Graves, filmmaker Luis Buñuel - Suárez built a media empire on its profits and always bragged about never having a politician on its cover. The documentary follows 30 years of Spain's history trough the story of the magazine and its makers.

Original title Dos crímenes por semana. El caso de EL CASO

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