Réquiem por Granada

Réquiem por Granada
Spanish	Réquiem por Granada
Italian	Granata, addio
German	Die Löwen der Granada
Genre	Historical drama
Screenplay by	Vicente Escrivá Manuel Matji
Directed by	Vicente Escrivá
Starring	Horst Buchholz Delia Boccardo Manuel Bandera Gioia Scola Javier Escrivá Marita Marschall Pedro Díez del Corral Oleg Fedorov Juanjo Puigcorbé
Composer	Antón García Abril
Country of origin	Spain Italy Germany
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production companies	Aspa Films Midega Films TVE RAI 1 Taurus Film
Original release
Network	tve1
Release	9 October (1991-10-09) – 27 November 1991 (1991-11-27)

Réquiem por Granada (transl. 'Requiem for Granada') is a period drama television miniseries directed by Vicente Escrivá recreating the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in the 15th century. An international co-production, it aired on TVE1 in 1991.

Premise

The fiction retells from the Muslim perspective the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.[1]

Cast

• Horst Buchholz as Muley Hassan[2]
• Delia Boccardo as Fátima[2]
• Manuel Bandera as Boabdil[2]
• Gioia Scola [it] as Isabel de Solís[2]
• Javier Escrivá [es] as Ismail[2]
• Marita Marschall [de] as Isabella the Catholic[2]
• Pedro Díez del Corral [es] as Ferdinand the Catholic[2]
• Oleg Fedorov as Al Zagal[2]
• Juanjo Puigcorbé as Christopher Columbus[2]
• Esperanza Campuzano as Moraima[2][3]
• Germán Cobos[2]
• Julio Gavilanes[2]
• Javier Loyola[2]
• Iñaki Aierra [eu][2]
• Juan Jesús Valverde [es][2]

Production and release

Featuring a budget of 1,500 million pesetas,[3] Réquiem por Granada was a co-production of Aspa Films, Midega Films, TVE, RAI 1 and Taurus Film.[2] The series was directed by Vicente Escrivá, whereas the score was composed by Antón García Abril.[4] The screenplay was written by Escrivá together with Manuel Matji [es].[3][5] Filming, which began on 12 February 1990 in Sierra Nevada,[4] was beset by problems.[6] Shooting locations included the Alhambra, the Great Mosque of Córdoba, and the Alcázar of Seville,[6] as well as Fez, in Morocco.[4] The miniseries consisted of 8 episodes featuring a running time of 52 minutes.[2] The broadcasting run on TVE1 began on 9 October 1991.[2] The finale was programmed for 27 November 1991.[7]

Series	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released	Network
1	8		9 October 1991 (1991-10-09)	27 November 1991 (1991-11-27)	tve

References

1. Drayson 2018, p. 309.
2. Palacio, Manuel. "Réquiem por Granada / Granata, addio / Die Löwen der Granada". Fantasías orientales en el cine español. Casa Árabe. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
3. Nieto, Marta (9 March 1991). "Las lágrimas de Boabdil". El País.
4. Martín, Aurelio (9 August 1990). "Termina el rodaje de 'Réquiem por Granada', serie producida para Televisión Española". El País.
5. Jiménez Alcázar, Juan Francisco; Abad Merino, Mercedes (2016). "El pasado como producto de consumo en los medios de ocio" (PDF). Historia y videojuegos: el impacto de los nuevos medios de ocio sobre el conocimiento histórico. Murcia: Centro de Estudios Medievales de la Universidad de Murcia-Ed. Compobell-IGN España. p. 19. ISBN 978-84-944757-3-3.
6. Drayson, Elizabeth (2018). "Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada". In North, Janice; Alvestad, Karl C.; Woodacre, Elena (eds.). Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers. p. 312. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_15. ISBN 978-3-319-68771-1.
7. "Réquiem por Granada". El País. 27 November 1991.

External links

• Réquiem por Granada at IMDb