El Crucero Baleares
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | El Crucero Baleares |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1941 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Enrique del Campo |
| script | Antonio Guzmán Merino |
| production | Radio films |
| music | Manuel L. Quiroga |
| camera |
Hans Scheib Francesco Izzarelli |
| cut | Jacques Saint-Leonard Sara Ontañón |
| occupation | |
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El Crucero Baleares is a 1941 under the direction of the Mexican Enrique del Campo incurred propaganda film about the fate of the cruiser Baleares .
Production history
The production of a film about the history of the Baleares began as early as 1940 . It was produced by the Spanish subsidiary of the RKO , Radio Films . The film was shot in Madrid, Vigo , Ferrol , Cádiz , San Fernando and Cartagena . The ship scenes were filmed on the sister ship of the Baleares , the Canarias . Special effects were used for the sinking in the Battle of Cabo de Palos , but recordings of maneuvers and archive images of the Skagerrak Battle were also used for the battle scenes. The recordings began in October 1940 and ended in early March 1941. The premiere party was scheduled for April 12, 1941 at the Cine Born in Madrid. Survivors were invited, newspapers announced the premiere, and the film was advertised with programs and posters. The state censorship had already approved the film, apart from minor complaints. Everything went according to plan until the film was shown in a private screening to a group of senior officers at the Ministry of Navy two days before its premiere. After the screening they agreed to ban the film and to confiscate and destroy all copies without giving any reason. This process became one of the most spectacular cases of self-censorship in post-war Spain. The reasons for this approach were manifold: the officers were not the implementation of the nationalist revolt in the navy and the heroic death of the sailors of the Baleares agree. The fact that the history of the Baleares was provided with an extensive romantic framework and that the incident was only recently was probably a reason.
Individual evidence
literature
- Jeroni F. Fullana, Eduardo Connolly, Daniel Cota: El crucero "Baleares" (1936–1938) (= Llibres de la nostra terra. 44). Lleonard Muntaner, Palma de Mallorca 2000, ISBN 84-95360-02-0 .
Web links
- El Crucero Baleares in the Internet Movie Database (English)