Segundo López, aventurero urbano

The filmmaking debut of Ana Mariscal, who, by then, had had an important career as an actress in theater and film, was a bold move in 1950s’ Spain, in more than one sense—being a woman behind the camera, financing her first film with her own production company and, above all, depicting the lives of the popular classes of postwar Madrid without euphemisms. With sensitivity and h...