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Historia de la frivolidad (1967)

Historia de la frivolidad poster
Directed by
Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Genre
comedy television program
Country
Spain
Runtime
42 min
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish television special that uses funny sketches to tell the history of eroticism. It also shows how censors from different time periods tried to hide it.

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What happens

Historia de la frivolidad (transl. History of frivolity) is a 1967 Spanish television special by Televisión Española, directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, written by himself and Jaime de Armiñán, with music by Augusto Algueró and drawings by Mingote. It first aired on February 9, 1967. It relates, through a series of humorous sketches, the history of eroticism, and the efforts of the censors of all ages to conceal it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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