Cinema and historic event: the death of Francisco Franco in the screen

Abstract

The death of Francisco Franco Bahamonde, which took place on November 20, 1975, after a long agony, beyond the mark, from the biological point of view, the end of the life of a head of state, has worked as authentic turning point in contemporary history of Spain, and became a place of memories. The image has played a special role in the memory of the event of the death of Franco. This text will focus on the question of the relationship between cinema and history from the study of the representation of Franco’s death as an event in the modern sense of the word, an event that marks a break, and as such continues to produce sense later memories. A corpus is reduced from four audiovisual productions (The death of Franco, 1975, the last fall, 1975, so Franco died, 1995, a good trip Excellence!, 2003), offering views representing various forms, both generic and in its evolution over time, from the same month of the death of Franco until 2000.