The bullfighter Marcial Lalanda financed and starred in this film about the rivalry between two bullfighters for the ill-fated love of the same woman. It features scenes of bullfights shot by Enrique Blanco using polychromatic film for the first time in Spain. Considered one of the greatest Spanish silent films.
Cinematography
First Spanish polychromatic footage—bullring blooms into lurid death.
Production
Real matador financed his own vanity project, then vanished from cinema.
Director
Fernando Delgado de Lara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marcial Lalanda never acted again despite financing this epic—some say the critical drubbing killed his vanity, others that the real bulls were enough performance.
The title quotes a famous Spanish song about Madrid's lost glory—Lalanda weaponizes nostalgia before the Republic even falls, making this accidentally prophetic.
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