Trivia

In the initial scene, a bailiff reads a death sentence from the scaffold while the executioner prepares to execute it. The first is played by the famous playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo and the executioner none other than the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. Considering that, in real life, both suffered great repression by Franco's regime (after the Spanish civil war, Buero Vallejo was sentenced to death, although he was later commuted to prison for several years, and Buñuel was forced into exile) , the sarcasm proposed by Saura is more than evident.