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Spain’s Stunning 1968 Eurovision Win Revisited in ‘La Canción,’ From ‘Hierro,’ ‘Rapa’s’ Pepe Coira and Fran Araujo
The truth, often comic, says a lot about why things happen and what it’s like living under a dictatorship, such as Spain’s in 1968.
From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain lobbied hard to join the European Economic Community, presenting itself as a modern country, despite its rule by an arcane 1930s dictator. Caps’ wingman is the series’ protagonist Esteban (Patrick Criado), pig ignorant about music but driven by the initial dogged ambition of scaling posts in Franco’s government. It attempted to sell the idea of a European-style state backing the New Spanish Cinema or sending the Novo Canço’s Joan Manuel Serrat to London as its Eurovision candidate.
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