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Cañas y barro (lit. 'Reeds and Mud') is a Spanish limited television series adapting the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. It aired in 1978 on TVE1.

Cañas y barro
Genre	Period drama
Based on	Cañas y barro [es] by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Screenplay by	Manuel Mur Oti
Directed by	Rafael Romero Marchent
Country of origin	Spain
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	55 min (approx.)
Production company	TVE
Release
Original network	TVE1
Original release	26 March (1978-03-26) – 30 April 1978 (1978-04-30)

Premise

The fiction is set in El Palmar, a village in La Albufera lagoon,[1] in fin-de-siècle Spain, in between the 19th and 20th centuries.[2] The plot features the strife between fishers (the old) and rice farmers (the new) as backdrop.[1]

Cast

• José Bódalo as Cañamel.[3]
• Alfredo Mayo as el Tío Paloma.[4]
• Manuel Tejada [es] as Tono.[5]
• Luis Suárez [es] as Tonet.[4]
• Terele Pávez as Samaruca.[6][7]
• Victoria Vera [es] as Neleta.[4]
• Ana Marzoa as Rosa.[8]

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 Cañas y barro [es].[9] 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.[10][1] Adapted to screen by Manuel Mur Oti, the episodes were directed by Rafael Romero Marchent.[1] It consisted of 6 episodes featuring a running time of about 55 minutes.[11] The production had a 70 million peseta budget.[11] It aired on a weekly basis from 26 March 1978 to 30 April 1978.[1] 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).[10]

References

Citations

Bibliography

• George, David R. Jr. (2011). "Cañas y barro de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez: La adaptación oportuna". Hispania. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. 94 (4): 577–588. JSTOR 23070049.
• Peña Ardid, Carmen (2010). "Las primeras grandes series literarias de la Transición: La saga de los Rius y Cañas y Barro" (PDF). In Ansón Anadón, Antonio (ed.). Televisión y literatura en la España de la transición (1973-1982). pp. 71–96. ISBN 978-84-9911-037-0.

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