Blood Wedding (1938)

Original title

Bodas de sangre

Directed by

Edmundo Guibourg

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple is about to be married but tragic fate intervenes with old rivalries and buried passions. The story follows the bride, groom, and a haunting figure from the bride's past.

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What happens

Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a 1938 Argentine film written and directed by Edmundo Guibourg, the first film adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1931 tragic play of the same name. It stars Spanish actress Margarita Xirgu—the main actress with whom Lorca had worked—alongside a cast that included mainly members of her theater company: Pedro López Lagar, Amelia de la Torre, Helena Cortesina, Eloísa Vigo, Amalia Sánchez Ariño, Enrique Diosdado, Alberto Contreras and Luisa Sala. The making of the film was intended as a tribute to Lorca, who had been assassinated in 1936. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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