A family, expelled from their shack, occupies the museum in Cordoba where once lived the prince who, in his youth, was the grandmother's lover. The curators and administrators of the museum, aided by a couple of inexperienced policemen, harass the squatters to force them to leave.
Acting
Fernando Rey's gloriously pompous museum director.
Writing
Biting satire of institutional cruelty disguised as farce.
Director
José Luis García Sánchez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pasodoble emerged during Spain's post-Franco transition, when artists aggressively mocked lingering class hierarchies and institutional hypocrisy.
Director García Sánchez was part of the 'Madrid comedy' movement that used farce to smuggle political critique past censors.
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