Sideral Cinema has acquired international sales and Spanish distribution rights to “Lorca: The Broken Voice” (“La voz quebrada”), Manuel Menchón Romero’s feature documentary exploring a little-known chapter in the life of Federico García Lorca.
Written and directed by Menchón, the feature documentary is produced by Argentina’s K&S Films and Spain’s Pantalla Partida Producciones and Imagine! Films, with the participation of public broadcaster RTVE.
The film is framed as both a historical investigation and an impossible-love story, drawing on two notebooks and a suitcase full of documents that, according to a synopsis, shed light on Lorca’s murder and on his last, unknown great love.
The documentary is narrated through letters, diaries and secrets left by its protagonists, using historical and previously unknown materials to revisit the life and death of one of Spain’s most beloved and internationally recognized poets.
A key element in the film is one of Menchón’s major discoveries during the research process: previously unseen footage of Lorca in motion while traveling with his theater company, La Barraca, in the early 1930s.
