The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca

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The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca ★★½ Death in Granada; Lorca 1996 (R)

In 1954, Spanish-born journalist Ricardo Fernandez (Morales) returns to Granada to look into the death of his idol, poet/playwright Gabriel Garcia Lorca (Garcia). Ricardo's family fled Spain for Puerto Rico in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, when anti-fascist Lorca was executed. Ricardo wants to find out just who Lorca's killers were but Franco's Spain is a country eager to bury its past. Based on two books by Ian Gibson. 114m/ C VHS . SP Esai Morales, Andy Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Jeroen Krabbe, Miguel Ferrer, Giancarlo Giannini, Marcela Wallerstein, Jose Coronado; D: Marcos Zurinaga; W: Marcos Zurinaga, Neil Cohen, Juan Antonio Ramos; C: Juan Ruiz-Anchia; M: Mark McKenzie.

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