''Blood Wedding'' ( Spanish: ''Bodas de sangre'') is a 1938 Argentine film written and directed by Edmundo Guibourg, the first

film adaptation A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dial ...

of Federico García Lorca's 1931 tragic play of the same name. It stars Spanish actress

Margarita Xirgu Margarita Xirgu Subirá (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Barcelona, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), also Margarida Xirgu, was a Spanish stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of ...

—the main actress with whom Lorca had worked—alongside a cast that included mainly members of her theater company:

Pedro López Lagar Pedro López Lagar (18 June 1899, in Madrid – 21 August 1977, in Buenos Aires) was a Spanish born Argentine film actor of the 1940s and 1950s. Although born in Madrid he moved to Argentina as a young man and began acting in film in 19 ...

, Amelia de la Torre,

Helena Cortesina Helena Cortesina (also known as Elena Cortesina or Elena Manuela Dolores Cortés Altabas) was a Spanish film director, actor, producer, and theatrical entrepreneur. She directed and produced the first known film by a Spanish woman, '' Flor de Espa ...

, Eloísa Vigo, Amalia Sánchez Ariño,

Enrique Diosdado Enrique Diosdado (May 6, 1910 – December 1, 1983) was a Spanish actor. He is sometimes credited as Enrique Alvarez Diosdado. Diosdado was a leading man of Argentine and Spanish films of the 1940s and 1950s. His daughter, Ana Diosdado, was a lead ...

Alberto Contreras Alberto Contreras (died 1958) was a Spanish-born stage and film actor who settled in Argentina. He portrayed don Florín in the play ''La sirena varada'', written by Alejandro Casona. Selected filmography * ''Our Natacha'' (1944) * ''The Sin of Ju ...

and

Luisa Sala Luisa Sala (7 July 192316 June 1986) was a distinguished actress of stage, film and television from the 1950s until her death. She was born on 7 July 1923 in Madrid, Spain. She was the New York Times' "Critic's Pick" in 1965 for her performance ...

. The making of the film was intended as a tribute to Lorca, who had been assasinated in 1936.

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(in Spanish) * {{1930s-Argentina-film-stub 1938 films

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