Blood Wedding (1938 film)

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| name = Blood Wedding

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| language = Spanish

| title = Bodas de sangre

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| director = Edmundo Guibourg

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| writer = Edmundo Guibourg

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| based_on = {{Based on|Blood Wedding
1931 play|Federico García Lorca}}

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| runtime = 98 minutes

| released = {{Film date|1938}}

| country = Argentina

| language = Spanish

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Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a 1938 Argentine film written and directed by Edmundo Guibourg, the first film adaptation of Federico García Lorca's 1931 tragic play of the same name.{{cite web|url=https://www.bne.es/es/blog/blog-bne/inmune-al-paso-del-tiempo-bodas-de-sangre-y-sus-adaptaciones-cinematograficas|title=Inmune al paso del tiempo. Bodas de Sangre y sus adaptaciones cinematográficas|accessdate=17 November 2022|date=5 June 2018|publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de España}} It stars Spanish actress Margarita Xirgu—the main actress with whom Lorca had worked—alongside a cast that included mainly members of her theater company: Pedro López Lagar, Amelia de la Torre, Helena Cortesina, Eloísa Vigo, Amalia Sánchez Ariño, Enrique Diosdado, Alberto Contreras and Luisa Sala.{{cite web|url=https://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/julio_14/22072014_01.htm|title=Películas de exiliados (2). Bodas de sangre (Edmundo Guibourg, 1938)|language=es|first=Luis E.|last=Parés|date=22 July 2014|accessdate=17 November 2022|work=Rinconete|publisher=Centro Virtual Cervantes}} The making of the film was intended as a tribute to Lorca, who had been assassinated in 1936.