Blood Wedding (1938 film)

Blood Wedding
SpanishBodas de sangre
Directed byEdmundo Guibourg
Written byEdmundo Guibourg
Based onBlood Wedding
1931 play
by Federico García Lorca
Release date
  • 1938 (1938)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

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.[1] 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.[2] The making of the film was intended as a tribute to Lorca, who had been assassinated in 1936.[2]

  1. ^ "Inmune al paso del tiempo. Bodas de Sangre y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas". Biblioteca Nacional de España. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b Parés, Luis E. (22 July 2014). "Películas de exiliados (2). Bodas de sangre (Edmundo Guibourg, 1938)". Rinconete (in Spanish). Centro Virtual Cervantes. Retrieved 17 November 2022.