Jose Antonio Nieves Conde - Films
- Artist/Author/Producer: Jose Antonio Nieves Conde
- Confronting Bodies: Jose Luis Arrese of the Ministerio de la Vivienda and the Ministerio de
Informacion y Turismo
- Dates of action: 1957
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Description of the Art Work
- Perhaps the most well-known of his censored films is "Surcos" (1951).
"Todos somos necesarios" ("We Are All Necessary") (1957), a film about
the scarcity of housing depicted through the life of a family evicted
from their home, was also censored.
- Description of incident
- The Ministerio de Informacion y Turismo (Ministry of Information and
Tourism) forbade the showing of the film because it gave a wrongful
impression of housing in Spain. The film's export to France was also
prohibited, as well as its participation in the Festival de Karlouy Vary.
- Results of incident
- The director's protests resulted in the board allowing him to remake the
ending, but the film remained censored.
Source: Valentin Roma
