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Cañas y barro (TV series)
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. PremiseThe 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
Production and releaseCañas 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.[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
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