El río que nos lleva
In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity
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"José Luis Sampedro took ten years to write the book, bumping into all sorts of bureaucratic and censorship problems in the process, gathering his material as he walked up and down the banks of the River Tagus (Río Tajo) in its upper reaches through the sparsely populated province of Cuenca. Things were not much better in 1989 when Antonio del Real started making the film, as he too met up with all kinds of problems, among them the fact that RTVE and the Cinematic Arts Council were not handing out funds so liberally as they do today. However, with Sr. Sampedro's help all along the way, the..."
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The poem that one of the hookers reads in the book that Roy Shannon has lent him is "Romance de la luna, luna" by Federico García Lorca.
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In 1946, an irishman joins a group of 'gancheros' (wood workers) while they drive wood thru the Tajo river, discovering human solidarity