Currito de la Cruz
About Currito de la Cruz
Currito grows up in the orphanage of Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados. He jumps into the Maestranza bullring as an espontáneo and starts a career as a matador. He loves Rocío, the daughter of the bullfighter who discovered him, Manuel Carmona. She slights him and favors the torero Romerita.
Cast & crew
More about Currito de la Cruz
Alejandro Pérez Lugín directed and adapted his own 1921 novel. Antonio Moriyón produced for Troya Film. Enrique Blanco photographed the film and Tomás Ysern edited it. The credited music is by Isaac Albéniz. It opened on January 12, 1926.
Themes
Making
Lugín, a novelist and bullfight writer, put his own 1921 book on screen with Troya Film.
Look
Enrique Blanco photographed the film.
Music
The credited music is by Isaac Albéniz.
Preservation
A print survives and has been posted from an archival copy.
Notes
- Jesús Tordesillas plays Currito. Manuel González plays Manuel Carmona, Elisa Ruiz Romero plays Rocío, and Antonio Calvache plays Romerita.
- Ana Adamuz plays Sor María del Amor Hermoso. Rafael Calvo plays Padre Almanzor.
- The Duchess of Alba appears as herself.
- The novel was filmed again in 1936, 1949, and 1965.
- Albéniz had died in 1909, so the music credit uses work he had already written.
Scenes
- Currito jumps into the Maestranza ring unannounced.
- Rocío turns from him toward the bullfighter Romerita.
Influenced by
- Currito de la Cruz (novel, 1921)
Influenced
- Currito de la Cruz (1936)
- Currito de la Cruz (1949)
- Currito de la Cruz (1965)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Currito de la Cruz (1926).webm)