La barraca (TV series)

La barraca is a Spanish prime-time television series based on the 1898 novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. Produced by Aldebarán Films for Televisión Española (TVE), it was directed by León Klimovsky, with screenplay by Manuel Mur Oti. Its nine episodes adapting the novel were broadcast on La Primera of Televisión Española in 1979.

Plot
Uncle Barret's family has to leave the shack, unable to pay the debts owed to the owner, Don Salvador. Uncle Barret, full of anger, kills him and is imprisoned. The shack is occupied by Batiste's family, who are not well received by the locals. From the initial rejection it turns to violence, which causes a tragic outcome.

Production
After the success of its 1978 television series Cañas y barro, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's first novel adapted to television, Televisión Española (TVE) commissioned the same production company, Aldebarán Films, to adapt La barraca, another novel by Blasco Ibáñez. The production was done with practically the same technical crew to try to repeat the success of its predecessor. The series was filmed in ten weeks with a cost of 81 million pesetas (€486,820). The exteriors were filmed on location near the Albufera in Valencia and the interiors were filmed in Madrid.

The shack referred to in the title is a Barraca, a typical building of the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia that served as housing for farmers in irrigated farming areas.

Cast

 * Álvaro de Luna as Batiste
 * Marisa de Leza as Teresa
 * Victoria Abril as Roseta
 * Juan Carlos Naya as Tonet
 * Lola Herrera as Pepeta
 * Luis Suárez (actor) as Pimentó
 * Eduardo Fajardo as Barret
 * Terele Pávez as Amparo
 * Gabriel Llopart as Don Joaquín
 * Fernando Hilbeck as Copa
 * Adrián Ortega as Salvador
 * Miguel Ayones as Doctor