Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the various locations where the shooting of the mythical film, narrating the infamous Grimaldos case (1910), took place.
Acting
Montesinos walking through his own ghost — devastatingly present.
Direction
Matellano lets silence do the talking. Respectful, never exploitative.
Writing
Layers Spain's real crime with cinema's crime against truth.
Director
Víctor Matellano
Guillermo Montesinos
Self - Host / Actor (El Cepa)
Javier Dotú
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ramón Langa
Self - Narrator (voice)
Claudio Rodríguez
Self - Dubbing Director (1980) / Narrator (voice)
Héctor Alterio
Self - Actor (Isasa)
Francisco Casares
Self - Actor (Taboada)
José Manuel Cervino
Self - Actor (León)
Mercedes Sampietro
Self - Actress (Alejandra)
Assumpta Serna
Self - Actress (Manuela)
Antón García Abril
Self - Music Composer (1980)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Grimaldos case (1910) was Spain's trial of the century, with forced confessions under torture — Pilar Miró's 1980 film was itself banned and censored by lingering Francoist mechanisms.
Montesinos never escaped El Cepa; this documentary is his reckoning with being forever the face of an innocent man executed by the state.
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