VIRIDIANA

The story of how Viridiana skipped censorship is mythical. Produced by Portabella, this scandalous and sardonic film with a blasphemous and fetishist tone passed the cut with a false script, and managed to escape without the final "clipping" to its screening in Cannes, taking then the negatives clandestinely to Paris. Franco's General Director of Cinematography Muñoz Fontán felt (as you can imagine) like drowned in a bucket of cold water in Cannes, so when Domingo Dominguín and Juan Antonio Bardem won the Palme d'Or, they had the idea of crowning the task by offering Muñoz Fontán himself the chance to collect the prize. A poisoned gift that ended with a fulminant dismissal and one of the summits of universal cinema.