A Forbidden Orange

'The forbidden orange' is a documentary directed by the Goya award winner Pedro González Bermúdez that reconstructs the events surrounding the first public screening of 'A Clockwork Orange' in Spain, a cult work directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 and which came to the country in the midst of a great controversy in the 20th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week in 1975.

After being completely banned by the Franco regime, 'The forbidden orange' reconstructs thanks to numerous testimonies from festival goers and officials the days before the great and long-awaited premiere at a politically very turbulent moment and in a Festival that tried to move away from its character markedly religious and become a more open cultural space despite the pressure of censorship.

Concluding with the 50th anniversary of the international premiere of this masterpiece of cinema, TCM produces this documentary that has the participation of the protagonist of the film, Malcolm McDowell, who, acting as narrator, shares unpublished anecdotes about the filming of the film. Carmelo Romero, director of the Seminci that year, the writer Vicente Molina Foix, who translated the dialogues of the film into Spanish, and the writer Gustavo Martín Garzo, one of those attending the premiere, also participate through interviews.