Lorca, muerte de un poeta

- Season 1

(1987)

Federico García Lorca evokes his childhood in Fuentevaqueros and his memories at school. He also has the opportunity to meet Antonio Machado. His father opposes Federico studying music in Paris. In 1918 he publishes his first book, titled Impressions and Landscapes.

Lorca moved to Madrid to study at the prestigious Residencia de Estudiantes, where he made friends with other young people and future promises of art such as Buñuel and Dalí. In Granada, he became interested in flamenco music under the guidance of maestro Manuel de Falla.

Federico García Lorca travels to Cadaqués in the company of Salvador Dalí, where they spend their holidays together. Shortly after, he premiered his play 'Mariana Pineda', starring Margarita Xirgu. In the athenaeum of Seville, the poets of the Generation of 27 read their poems to the general public. Around that time, Lorca experienced some disappointment in love, while Buñuel and Dalí, fervent surrealists, renounced the popular style of the 'Romancero gitano' and moved to Paris to shoot 'Un chien andalou'.

In 1929, Federico García Lorca traveled to New York to further his studies at Columbia University. During his stay in the city he will witness the consequences of the Wall Street crash. After staying there for 10 months, in the spring of 1930 he will visit Havana, Cuba. He later returns to Spain where he obtains a huge success after the premiere of his plays Yerma and Bodas de sangre. He also performs the function of director of the University Theater group "La Barraca". The death of his friend, the bullfighter Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, produces a deep sorrow in him ...

After the victory of the Popular Front of left-wing parties in the elections of February 1936, the rumors about a possible military coup d'etat are more and more insistent. Federico García Lorca, who has just written his theatrical drama La casa de Bernarda Alba, moves to Granada to celebrate his name day with his family. The military uprising of July 18 will be the prelude to a bloody civil war.

In the city of Granada altercations and executions take place. Meanwhile, the García Lorca family continues to be frightened by the events. To prevent Federico from being arrested, they decide that he will spend a few days at the home of his friend Luis Rosales, since both Luis and his brothers are prominent Falangists. Even so, the poet, who is accused of allegedly collaborating with international communism, will be transferred to the police station.