Tarantos, Los (1963)

Regisseur:

Francisco Rovira Beleta

Drehbuchautoren:

Alfredo Mañas (play)
Francisco Rovira Beleta (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

5. November 1963 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Flamenco | Based On Play

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins

Nutzerkommentare:

Passionate and mortal romance in Barcelona

Besetzung

Carmen Amaya	...	Angustias
Sara Lezana	...	Juana
Daniel Martín	...	Rafael
Antonio Gades	...	Mojigondo
Antonio Prieto	...	Rosendo
José Manuel Martín	...	Curro (as J. Manuel Martín)
Margarita Lozano	...	Isabel
Juan Manuel Soriano
Antonia Singla	...	Sole (as Antonia 'La Singla')
Aurelio Galán 'El Estampío'	...	Jero (as A. Galán 'El Estampío')
Peret	...	Guitarist
Andrés Batista	...	Guitarist
Emilio de Diego	...	Guitarist
'Pucherete'	...	Guitarist
Blay	...	Guitarist

Produktionsland:

Spain

Sprache:

Spanisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Eastmancolor)

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Spain:18

Drehorte:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Firma:

Tecisa

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Neufassung von Montoyas y Tarantos (1989)

Passionate and mortal romance in Barcelona

Outstanding adaptation of Alfredo Maña´s play, entitled "La historia de los Tarantos", that in a sort of time and space transposition of Shakespeare's classic "Romeo and Juliet", describes the unlucky love between a couple of young gypsies, pertaining to two different families, deep-rooted opposing and established in the now missing district of Somorrostro, in Barcelona.

Rovira Beleta´s cinema, seriously committed with Catalonia social reality reached and international repercussion with this fable of passion and resentment, embellished with the flamenco superb scenes by Carmen Amaya (in her las film appearance) or a suggestive, night life and irrigated dance by Antonio Gades through the beautiful Ramblas.

Wonderful in its chromatic esthetic and its interpretations, the movie brings a real vision, nearly to the documental pictures, about methods and traditions of this excluded ethnic collective, without falling in the trite and easy lucrative Spanish folklore.