The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.
Length 100 minutes
Joaquín Cortés | La Paquera de Jerez | Paco de Lucía | Fernanda de Utrera | Antonio Toscano | Matilde Coral | Duquende | Merche Esmeralda | Mario Maya | Manolo Sanlucar | José Mercé | Rocío Jurado | María Pagés | Farruco | Enrique Morente | Carmen Amaya | farruquito | Tomatito | José Ortega “Manzanita” | Remedios Amaya | Aurora Vargas | Manuel Molina Jiménez | Israel Galván | Carmen Linares | Pilar Montoya | Manuel Agujetas