After the success of Mi querida señorita (1971), the scriptwriter and director Jaime de Armiñán decided to direct his next works within a line of recovery of historical memory. As did his contemporaries Víctor Erice (El espíritu de la colmena, 1973) and Carlos Saura (La prima Angélica, 1973), in El amor del capitán Brando (1974) and ¡Jo, papá! (1975) Armiñán decided that the time had come to reflect on the Spanish Civil War and its consequences. He did it from a friendly and complacent posture, according to the years of change that were beginning to awaken in the country, and where the death of General Franco marked the end of a long dictatorship and the beginning of a new democratic stage.