Pack Carlos Saura: Bodas de Sangre y El Amor Brujo. VHS-PAL

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Bodas de sangre. 

The first incursion of Saura in the musical ended - as it should be- by a big success. The axis of the movie is the general rehearsal of the danse company of the mythical Antonio Gades about the work of  Federico García Lorca'Bodas de sangre" and the final representation. This has been the first collaboration among two of the biggest men of the spanish culture, Saura and Gades, and has had an excellent result that will be the first of a serie of big collaborations.

Bodas de Sangre.

Saura's first attempt at a musical yielded succesful results. The movie's main theme is Antonio Gades' mythical baile on Federico García Lorca's "Bodas de sangre" and it's latest example. It was the first collaboration betweentwo of the great names in Spanish culture, Saura and Gasdes, and it was so succesful that it was the first of a seriesof collaborations. 

Plot

There is a wedding celebration in an Andaluz town. The bride is still in love with her old boy-friend, Leonarde. Once the wedding has been consuamted she passionately gives herself and elopes with him. The abandoned groom chases after them and, when he finds them, he challenges Leonardo to a duel with knives in which they both wind up dying.Lorca's tragic poetry, life's tragic feeling, death and the violence that followes around the men all their lives is reflected in the omen and anguish of the mother, who has lost her husband for a crime and one of her sons for another.