Cañas y barro (lit. 'Reeds and Mud') is a Spanish limited television series adapting the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It aired in 1978 on TVE1.
Premise
The fiction is set in El Palmar, a village in La Albufera lagoon,[1] in fin-de-siècle Spain, in between the 19th and 20th centuries.[2] The plot features the strife between fishers (the old) and rice farmers (the new) as backdrop.[1]
Cast
- José Bódalo as Cañamel.[3]
- Alfredo Mayo as el Tío Paloma.[4]
- Manuel Tejada as Tono.[5]
- Luis Suárez as Tonet.[4]
- Terele Pávez as Samaruca.[6][7]
- Victoria Vera as Neleta.[4]
- Ana Marzoa as Rosa.[8]
Production and release
Cañas y barro is an adaptation of the 1902 novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. The novel had been already adapted to a feature film format with the Juan de Orduña's 1954 film Cañas y barro.[9] The series was shot in the northern hemisphere Autumn/Winter of 1977 in the same location the fiction takes place, in La Albufera and El Palmar.[10][1] Adapted to screen by Manuel Mur Oti, the episodes were directed by Rafael Romero Marchent.[1] It consisted of 6 episodes featuring a running time of about 55 minutes.[11] The production had a 70 million peseta budget.[11] It aired on a weekly basis from 26 March 1978 to 30 April 1978.[1] It became the most watched fiction series of the year, and second in general to the documentary series El hombre y la Tierra (non-fiction).[10]
References
- Citations
- ^ a b c d e f George 2011, p. 578.
- ^ Peña Ardid 2010, p. 91.
- ^ "Vida de Santa Teresa y obra de Blasco Ibáñez". Diario Palentino. 6 April 2020.
- ^ a b c Peña Ardid 2010, p. 93.
- ^ Peña Ardid 2010, p. 93–94.
- ^ Pereira, Azucena (12 August 2017). "7 personajes televisivos inolvidables de Terele Pávez". FormulaTV.
- ^ George 2011, p. 579.
- ^ Peña Ardid 2010, p. 94.
- ^ Peña Ardid 2010, p. 78.
- ^ a b Díez, Teresa (17 April 2017). ""Cañas y barro", la primera serie de la 'cultura de la transición'". Valencia Plaza.
- ^ a b Herrera, Nuria (15 May 2020). "10 series míticas de RTVE que puedes recuperar durante la cuarentena". Diez Minutos.
- Bibliography
- George, David R. Jr. (2011). "Cañas y barro de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: La adaptación oportuna". Hispania. 94 (4). American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese: 577–588. JSTOR 23070049.
- Peña Ardid, Carmen (2010). "Las primeras grandes series literarias de la Transición: La saga de los Rius y Cañas y Barro" (PDF). In Ansón Anadón, Antonio (ed.). Televisión y literatura en la España de la transición (1973-1982). pp. 71–96. ISBN 978-84-9911-037-0.