¡Buen viaje, excelencia! Enjoy the trip, your Excellency! (2003 - Albert Boadella)

Title: ¡Buen viaje, excelencia! Year: 2003 Director: Albert Boadella Writer: Albert Boadella Actors: Ramon Fontserè, Pilar Sáenz, Minnie Marx, Xavier Boada Language: Spanish Runtime: 92 min Released: 10 Oct 2003 Plot: A black comedy about the decadence of absolute power and the perversity of Franco and his sordid cohorts clinging to power during the last two years of the increasingly senile dictator’s life. The sole objective of the terrified servile characters around him is to keep him, his myth and the crumbling regime — which was totally dependent on his presence — alive, simply to ensure their own survival. Their days of absolute power slipping away, the decrepit and delirious old man was — like Charlton Heston at the end of the film in which he starred as Rodrígo Diáz de Bívar, or El Cid Campeador — a dead man riding out on his trusty steed Babieca, his sword Colada strapped to his hand and a pole up his arse to rally the Stockholm syndrome-struck populace, and to terrify