Cañas y barro (TV series) explained

Genre:Period drama
Screenplay:Manuel Mur Oti
Director:Rafael Romero Marchent
Country:Spain
Language:Spanish
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:6
Runtime:55 min (approx.)
Company:TVE
Network:TVE1

Cañas y barro 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, in fin-de-siècle Spain, in between the 19th and 20th centuries. The plot features the strife between fishers (the old) and rice farmers (the new) as backdrop.

Cast

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 . 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. Adapted to screen by Manuel Mur Oti, the episodes were directed by Rafael Romero Marchent. It consisted of 6 episodes featuring a running time of about 55 minutes.[3] The production had a 70 million peseta budget. It aired on a weekly basis from 26 March 1978 to 30 April 1978. 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).[4]

References

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  • Notes and References

    1. Web site: Vida de Santa Teresa y obra de Blasco Ibáñez. Diario Palentino. 6 April 2020.
    2. Web site: 7 personajes televisivos inolvidables de Terele Pávez. FormulaTV. 12 August 2017. Azucena. Pereira.
    3. Web site: 10 series míticas de RTVE que puedes recuperar durante la cuarentena. Diez Minutos. 15 May 2020. Nuria. Herrera.
    4. Web site: "Cañas y barro", la primera serie de la 'cultura de la transición'. Valencia Plaza. 17 April 2017. Teresa. Díez.