
Writing
Federico García Lorca
Born 1898-06-05 · Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Acting credits
NRPerformances by the Teatro Universitario La Barraca, directed by Federico García Lorca and Eduardo Ugarte, during their first tours in Burgo de Osma and villages in the province of Soria. Accompanying activities organised by the teaching staff.
La Barraca
1932
7.2Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
2019
10.0In 1931, Federico García Lorca was appointed director of the student theatre company Teatro Universitario "La Barraca" ('The Shack'). Funded by the Ministry of Education of the Second Republic, the company was tasked with touring rural areas of Spain to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre at no cost. Utilizing a portable stage and minimal equipment, the troupe aimed to bring theatrical performance to populations with no prior exposure, with García Lorca serving as both director and actor.
La Barraca. Lorca por los caminos de España
1994
9.5Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.
El balcón abierto
1984
Behind the camera
6.0Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange factory and forced to work as prostitutes.
Bernarda
2018
NRPerformances by the Teatro Universitario La Barraca, directed by Federico García Lorca and Eduardo Ugarte, during their first tours in Burgo de Osma and villages in the province of Soria. Accompanying activities organised by the teaching staff.
La Barraca
1932
NRA domineering and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to a young man, for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda
Sisters in Gloom (The House of Bernarda Alba)
1981
6.8The first actor of a theater company on tour in Spain dies in a car accident. A new actor, Jorge Ruiz, is to relieve you. He's handsome, young and revolutionary. His arrival creates tension, jealousy and distrust in the rest of the cast, is-especially in Mario Soto, which is responsible to lead in the absence of the author of the assembly, busy with an opera for the Teatro Real in Madrid . Already in the first trial of the work concerned the "Play Without a Title" by Federico Garcia Lorca, their personalities collide head. Morante Carmen, leading actress of the company, and Laura G. Reyna, which was secret lover of the deceased, witness the struggle between the two. As if that were not enough, the newcomer brings added conflict: reading at the end of the function of a manifesto for peace. Mario questioned that decision and the company is divided.
Los abajo firmantes
2003
8.8A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.
National Theatre Live: Yerma
2017
NRA domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
5.6The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find jobs. Oliviero, however, leaves Miranda in search of his first love Ana who he met ten years prior. Once in Barcelona, he realizes that Ana's life has drastically changed and their love is in the past. Soon, he meets poet and circus performer, Alejandra. Oliviero becomes smitten and desperately tries bond with her, but she makes things a little more difficult that he ever imagined.
The Dark Side of the Heart 2
2001
NROpera in three acts. Broadcast live from El Teatro de la Zarzuela on November 18, 2018.
The House of Bernarda Alba
2018
A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
The House of Bernarda Alba
1976
NRDirector: Russell Brown WHITE CAMELLIAS is a melodrama that revolves around an artist in her early 60s (Cybill Shepherd) who throws a Spanish-themed dinner party in the hopes of rekindling the great love affair of her youth. A passionate woman who fills her home with poetry and paintings, Annie is a genuine romantic which also leaves her vulnerable to disappointment and occasional delusion. As the evening progresses, her expectations of love transform as she faces painful truths about her past and present. Fueled by the strong words of her favorite poet -- Federico Garcia Lorca -- Annie will redefine her vision for the future and her definition of happiness over the course of this dark night of reckoning.
White Camellias
2012
NRA young shoemaker marries an older man, but he, jealous, leaves home. The woman opens a tavern and her husband returns in disguise to test her fidelity. Television adaptation of the play by Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, translated by Carlos Wallenstein and directed by Varela Silva, with Amália Rodrigues in the lead role.
A Sapateira Prodigiosa
1968
NRFocuses on the dancer, choreographer, and composer Ernest Berk (1909-1993), who at the time the film was made was 81 years old. Using choreography and dance, but also forms of linguistic expression, the aging body and its sexuality is explored, especially the apparent discrepancy between a youthful spirit and bodily decay.
Stay Just a Moment
1990
4.2Yerma is desperate to have children, so when a psychic advises her to look outside her marriage to conceive, what can she say but yes?
Yerma
1999
4.3The exhibition, which coincides with the birth centenary of the poet Federico García Lorca, proposes a realistic recreation in images by Frederic Amat of the poet's screenplay Trip to the Moon. The aim, according to Amat, is to unravel the mysteries of the screenplay, an effort to distill its essence, silhouetting his poetic suggestion and let the script itself manifests in the different film procedures that invites the Lorquian conception.
Viaje a la luna
1998
6.3In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Based on Federico Garica Lorca’s novel.
Blood Wedding
1977
an adaptation of a play by Federico Garcia Lorca. After her husband's death, Bernarda Alba imposes eight years mourning period upon her household as the tradition runs in her family. In a household of 5 girls their mother and their grandma the tension and the deprivation arise as the mourning period isolate them from the rest of the village and deprive them of any male contact.
Bernard Alba's Household
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7.0Bernarda, a domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town, keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man.
La casa de Bernarda Alba
1974
