Resumen de El escándalo de Mourir à Madrid: una "película ofensiva para España"
Frédéric Rossif’s French documentary on the Spanish Civil War Mourir à Madrid (1963) was entirely opposed by Spanish authorities. The Spanish embassy in Paris tried to stop the film from being shown, but French censors found no justifiable reason to ban it. However, at that time Spain and France were negotiating an important commercial agreement, and so it turned out that the French minister of Foreign Affairs had certain scenes cut from the film, and that satisfied Spanish authorities. This attack on freedom of expression was widely condemned in the French press. Numerous articles keenly praised the film and, much to the consternation of Spanish authorities, the film became a great success. From that point on, Spanish authorities tried to prohibit the film in as many countries as possible. As they were, for the most part, unsuccessful, the Spanish authorities were forced instead to create counter-propagandistic films
