Resumen de Los primeros acuerdos de coproducción entre la España franquista y la Italia fascista (1938)
The chaos following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War will cause Franco’s government to seek support in the powerful model of contemporary Italian cinematography in an attempt to revive its own production using the infrastructure of the Cincecittá studios. Foreseeing enormous economic gains in the exploitation of Italian cinema in the Spanish and Latin American markets, Mussolini was to back the first co-production agreement in 1938, with excellent results in the form of a total of sixteen full-length films. Despite later efforts to revive these agreements, Italy’s entrance in WWII in 1941 together with the confinement of the Italian fascist government in the Salò abstract Republic brought a definitive end to these production plans.
