Multimedia Collection
Blood Wedding
VHS
71 minutes
GV1796 .F66 B61 1981
Antonio Gades, Spain's leading dancer-choreographer and former director of the National Ballet of Spain, created his most famous work in this flamenco interpretation of the classic drama by Spain's most acclaimed playwright of this century, Federico Garcia Lorca. Director Carlos Saura (Carmen) filmed the celebrated troupe arriving at the dance studio, making up and rehearsing, dramatizing the electrifying techniques by which they transform themselves into a spellbinding company.
The story of murderous passion and revenge is told entirely through dance, without dialogue. A young bride (the explosive Cristina Hoyos) runs off from her wedding with a married lover (Gedes). Her jilted husband tracks them down and fights a knife duel to the death. An unusual marriage of ballet, folk art, literature and film, Blood Wedding is a thrilling successful cinematic experiment and a work of dancing genius.
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