Bonfire of the Painted Dolls – Bardem and Death of a Cyclist David Melville June 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film “In my day, there were too many symbols.” - Juan Fernandez Soler (Alberto Closas) in Muerte de un ciclista (Death of a Cyclist) Madrid in 1951 was a drab place. The capital of Europe’s last surviving fascist ...