Rejected artist flees to Africa — peak 1964 melodrama or unhinged self-care?
Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to go to Africa.
Production
Faculty of Medicine doubles as party central.
Costume
1964 formal wear for student parties, apparently.
Direction
Ochoa's Africa-as-catharsis visual metaphor.
Director
José Ochoa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's 1960s cinema often used Africa as symbolic 'elsewhere' for characters escaping Franco-era constraints.
José Calvo later became famous as the village priest in 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' — very different energy.
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