La vaquilla

The story, on the front of the Spanish Civil War, of the attempted robbery of a heifer by Republican soldiers from a town taken over by the rebels, is a true, too human, satire on the war. Berlanga and Azcona propose a corrosive gaze towards the war presenting the struggle for life through an episode that, in its lack of epic, defines the humanity of which the poor soldiers are true bearers, oblivious to what the horror and nonsense of war implies.