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*Réquiem por Granada*
Réquiem por Granada
Spanish	Réquiem por Granada
Italian	Granata, addio
German	Die Löwen der Granada
Genre	Historical drama
Screenplay by	Vicente Escrivá; Manuel Matji
Directed by	Vicente Escrivá
Starring	Horst Buchholz; Delia Boccardo; Manuel Bandera; Gioia Scola; Javier Escrivá; Marita Marschall; Pedro Díez del Corral; Oleg Fedorov; Juanjo Puigcorbé
Composer	Antón García Abril
Country of origin	Spain; Italy; Germany
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Production companies	Aspa Films; Midega Films; TVE; RAI 1; Taurus Film
Original release
Network	tve1
Release	9 October –; 27 November 1991

Réquiem por Granada (transl. 'Requiem for Granada') is a period drama television miniseries directed by Vicente Escrivá recreating the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in the 15th century. An international co-production, it aired on TVE1 in 1991.

Premise

The fiction retells from the Muslim perspective the fall of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.^[1]

Cast

Horst Buchholz as Muley Hassan^[2]
Delia Boccardo as Fátima^[2]
Manuel Bandera as Boabdil^[2]
Gioia Scola [it] as Isabel de Solís^[2]
Javier Escrivá [es] as Ismail^[2]
Marita Marschall [de] as Isabella the Catholic^[2]
Pedro Díez del Corral [es] as Ferdinand the Catholic^[2]
Oleg Fedorov as Al Zagal^[2]
Juanjo Puigcorbé as Christopher Columbus^[2]
Esperanza Campuzano as Moraima^[2]^[3]
Germán Cobos^[2]
Julio Gavilanes^[2]
Javier Loyola^[2]
Iñaki Aierra [eu]^[2]
Juan Jesús Valverde [es]^[2]

Production and release

Featuring a budget of 1,500 million pesetas,^[3] Réquiem por Granada was a co-production of Aspa Films, Midega Films, TVE, RAI 1 and Taurus Film.^[2] The series was directed by Vicente Escrivá, whereas the score was composed by Antón García Abril.^[4] The screenplay was written by Escrivá together with Manuel Matji [es].^[3]^[5] Filming, which began on 12 February 1990 in Sierra Nevada,^[4] was beset by problems.^[6] Shooting locations included the Alhambra, the Great Mosque of Córdoba, and the Alcázar of Seville,^[6] as well as Fez, in Morocco.^[4] The miniseries consisted of 8 episodes featuring a running time of 52 minutes.^[2] The broadcasting run on TVE1 began on 9 October 1991.^[2] The finale was programmed for 27 November 1991.^[7]

Series	Episodes		Originally aired
Series	Episodes		First aired	Last aired	Network
1	8		9 October 1991 (1991-10-09)	27 November 1991 (1991-11-27)	tve

References

^ Drayson 2018, p. 309.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r Palacio, Manuel. "Réquiem por Granada / Granata, addio / Die Löwen der Granada". Fantasías orientales en el cine español. Casa Árabe. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nieto, Marta (9 March 1991). "Las lágrimas de Boabdil". El País.
^ ^a ^b ^c Martín, Aurelio (9 August 1990). "Termina el rodaje de 'Réquiem por Granada', serie producida para Televisión Española". El País.
^ Jiménez Alcázar, Juan Francisco; Abad Merino, Mercedes (2016). "El pasado como producto de consumo en los medios de ocio" (PDF). Historia y videojuegos: el impacto de los nuevos medios de ocio sobre el conocimiento histórico. Murcia: Centro de Estudios Medievales de la Universidad de Murcia-Ed. Compobell-IGN España. p. 19. ISBN 978-84-944757-3-3.
^ ^a ^b Drayson, Elizabeth (2018). "Televising Boabdil, Last Muslim King of Granada". In North, Janice; Alvestad, Karl C.; Woodacre, Elena (eds.). Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers. p. 312. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-68771-1_15. ISBN 978-3-319-68771-1.
^ "Réquiem por Granada". El País. 27 November 1991.