Un personaxe berlanguiano
Na espera de que os seus lle atopen un recuncho no faiado, o estadista que lle cabía un estado na cabeza está, quizais, a matinar na imaxe que del quedará para a posteridade.
Pode facerse unha idea repasando a filmografía deste señor:
“La escopeta nacional (The National Shotgun, 1978)—the first and best movie in a trilogy that follows the fortunes of the Leguineches, a formerly wealthy family descended from the nobility that has fallen upon hard times—concerns a businessman who joins the nation’s most powerful figures on a hunting expedition and provokes a crisis of state. The film was inspired by a real event that took place in the 1960s when the newly-appointed Government Minister of Information, Manuel Fraga, joined Franco and his family on a hunting expedition and by accident fired pellets into Franco’s daughter’s rear end. The anecdote, while containing a perfect array of ingredients for any comic filmmaker, proved pertinent both to the career of Berlanga in retrospect and to more recent current affairs. In 1963, Fraga was the Francoist Minister charged with justifying the execution of Julián Grimau to the world and, in passing, the person responsible for adopting reprisals against Berlanga for El verdugo. 40 years later, towards the end of the year 2002, an oil tanker called Prestige was wrecked off the Galician coast in north-western Spain. Thousands of tonnes of crude oil washed up on the region’s beaches causing what has been termed the nation’s most important ecological disaster ever. In the aftermath of the catastrophe it was revealed that—when it was assumed he was supervising the rescue and clean up operation—the President of the Galician regional government, the very same (albeit now octogenarian and democratically-elected) Manuel Fraga, was hundreds of kilometres away in the southern-centre of Spain participating in a hunting expedition.”
