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Blood and Sand

1917 · 65 min
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Since Juan Gallardo was a child wishes to be a bullfighter and he achieves to be come a recognizable figure. He marries Carmen, his childhood friend, but he fall s in love with the widow of a diplomat, a sophisticated woman of the world with whom he starts a relationship that will end up destroying him. While he is recovering be cause he had been severely gored in his sevillian house, Juan receives a visit f rom his great admirer the bandit “Plumitas” who makes him see the parallelism be tween their life experiences. The visit is interrupted with the Civil Guard lying in wait of the bandit. Juan drifts a long time from failure to failure because he is now a fraid of the bull and he is again humiliated by his beloved Mrs. Sol. Finally he gets a bullfight in Madrid and Carmen, his wife, has a bad omen and comes to the bullring.

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Original Title Sangre y Arena
Year 1917
Country Spain
Director Ricardo de Baños
Runtime 65 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a tragedy around the contrast between sincere devotion and destructive obsession, between the public arena and private ruin. It relies on the classic rise-and-fall narrative, where vanity and fear become the protagonist's true adversaries.

What lingers after viewing is a stark portrait of a man torn between two worlds, neither of which offers redemption. The final bullfight looms not as a triumph, but as an inevitable reckoning. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Ricardo de Baños

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Watch as a silent-era melodrama of fatal desire and the burdens of fame.

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