Synopsis
Carlos Saura began what would become his trilogy with this depiction of a single dress rehearsal for choreographer Antonio Gades’s adaptation of poet/playwright Federico García Lorca’s tale of passionate revenge. No mere recording of a ballet, Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) uses gripping camerawork and heart-pounding rhythmic editing to evoke the experience of moving with the dancers every step of the way.
Cast
| Leonardo | Antonio Gades |
| Bride | Cristina Hoyos |
| Groom | Juan Antonio Jiménez |
| Mother | Pilar Cárdenas |
| Wife | Carmen Villena |
Credits
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| Producer | Emiliano Piedra |
| Screenplay | Antonio Artero |
| Based on a play by | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| Cinematography | Teodoro Escamilla |
| Choreography | Antonio Gades |
| Costume design | Francisco Nieva |
| Music | Emilio de Diego |
| Editing | Pablo Gonzalez del Amo |
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One of Spain’s most acclaimed and prolific directors, Carlos Saura emerged as an artist in the late 1950s under Franco’s dictatorship and immediately made his mark as an incisive, if necessarily allusive, social and political commentator. In such films as The Hooligans (1960), a neorealist...
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