Clara es el precio

Clara es el precio (1975)

In a city on Spain’s Costa Brava, Clara Valverde, a young beautiful woman, lives with her husband Juan. Juan is an architect and has planned a daring urbanistic project. In reality, the project is not viable. Clara, to keep her marriage and finances a float, works as a porno actress in an underground film industry. In spite of her job and her marriage, Clara is still a virgin. Her marriage has never been consummated because her husband is impotent for which she blames herself. In her work she does not allow to be penetrated. One day she goes to a reunion with Kellerman, an American millionaire who seems to be interested into put into fruition Juan’s project. However soon Clara learns that what he really wants is to blackmail her. The owner of the house, Jorge, finds out Claras’s real occupation and if she does not have sex to the American would tell everything to her husband.

Date of release
1975-04-30
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Vicente Aranda

Casting

Interesting facts

Clara is the Price is a 1975 Spanish film directed by Vicente Aranda. It stars Amparo Muñoz, Máximo Valverde and Juan Luis Galiardo. It was shot in Cadaques, Empuriabrava (Girona), Delta del Ebro (Tarragona) and Barcelona.

Production

The idea behind the film came from Pedro Carvajal who wrote the screenplay. From Madrid he went to Barcelona and persuaded director Vicente Aranda to take on the project. Aranda was initially reluctant, but accepted to direct the film after making substantial changes to the script. However this is the only film in Aranda's long career in which he did not sign the script.

For the leading role of Clara, Aranda cast Amparo Muñoz, who was then not yet eighteen and had recently been elected Miss Spain. She was not a trained actress and this was her first film. Juan Luis Galiardo and Maximo Valverde, two popular heartthrobs of Spanish cinema during the 1970s, were chosen for the male leads playing against type, one as a homosexual and the other as an impotent husband.

With a budget of 9 million pesetas, the film was shot in studios in Barcelona and exteriors in Cadaques, Empuriabrava (Girona) and Delta del Ebro (Tarragona). The original title of the film, Pornografia (pornography), was banned by censors and was changed to Clara es el precio (Clara is the price).

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