Bullfight in Madrid

Corrida in Madrid is a 26 minute old film carried out by Orson Welles in 1955. It belongs to the series of Around the World with Orson Welles produced by ITV British Television and made following the Carnets of voyage of Orson Welles of 1955.

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Synopsis

In this documentary realized for English television, Orson Welles presents the universe of the Tauromachie, the “Mundillo” of the Corrida and comments on that of May 23rd, 1955 with Madrid, where the bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez is made take.

Introduced by a couple of Aficionado S English Mister and Mrs Kenneth, one attends the various stages of the life of the “toro” since the finca with the Arène. At the beginning of film, one sees the rejonador Angel Peralta making a demonstration of Goes up Will be occupied, and a document with Manolete with the speedwell.

Orson Welles shows in this film if need be its “aficion”, affirming Kenneth even that it would have been Picador in the Thirties, him whose ashes were dispersed on Andalusia, and whose phantom according to the legend, is held on the right of the door of the toril in the arenas of Ronda to protect the bullfighters…

Anecdote

It will be noted curiously that the castle of Xanadu in its film Citizen Kane is the counterpart of the church of Ronda!

There exist other filmed documents hard the Aficion of Welles:

  • Albert and David Maysles - Orson Welles in the Arena , 8', June 1966 in The Other Side off the World
  • Raynald Hake and Orson Welles, Orson Welles and the Art off Bullfighting, ABC TV, 1961, program included in TEMPO of ABC TV.

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