The Spirit of Lorca

In a brief life filled with prodigious artistic achievements Federico García Lorcas greatest legacy may well be his complex and compelling personality Filmed on location in Spain this BBC Arena documentary profiles the immortalized poetdramatist capturing the potent essence of Spanish culture in the process Extracts from his poems plays and letters demonstrate his duendeburning passionfor the arts while the details of his life and violent death as told by his biographer Ian Gibson contemporaries Rafael Alberti and Luis Rosales and others present a thoughtful perspective on Spains revered literary icon