Overview
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the BAFTA for Best Film Not in the English Language (1985)
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Nominations
5 award nominations, including the Oscar for Best International Feature Film (1984)
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Based on
Based on Carmen
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Setting
Set in Spain
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Sequels
Follows Blood Wedding and is followed by El Amor brujo
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Collection
Part of The Flamenco Trilogy
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Music
Music by Paco de Lucía
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Teodoro Escamilla
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Prosper MériméeAuthor
- Antonio GadesWriter
- Carlos SauraWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 6, 1983
- Original language
- Spanish
- Countries
- Spain
- Collection
- The Flamenco Trilogy
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Cast
Antonio GadesAntonio
Laura del SolCarmen
Paco de LucíaPaco
MarisolPepa Flores
Cristina HoyosCristina
Juan Antonio JiménezJuan
José YepesPepe Girón- Sebastián MorenoEscamillo
- Gómez de JerezCantaores
- Manolo SevillaCantaores
- Antonio SoleraGuitarristes
- Manuel RodríguezGuitarrista
- Lorenzo VirsedaGuitarristes
José Luna 'El Tauro'Himself- Enrique EsteveHimself
- Enrique Ortega
- Diego Pantoja
- Rocío NavarreteBailaora
- Stella ArauzoBailaora
- Blanca Navarro
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