The Nightingale and the Night: Chavela Vargas sings Lorca.

Chavela Vargas and Federico García Lorca are the main characters of this story. Poetry and music are the places of their meetings. Chavela explains when he lived in the same room where Federico García Lorca lived decades ago, was visited by a bird that contained the soul of the Spanish poet. In her last year of life, Chavela fulfills her last wish: to make a tribute to Spanish poet and finally meet him in the ranks of death. The Nightingale and the Night is a documentary that chronicles the transition from Chavela life to death, her union with Federico, dissolving the borders between reality and dreams.

• Release date
• March 11, 2015
• Runtime
• 76 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Rubén Rojo Aura

Cast

Chavela Vargas Herself Lila Downs Herself

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Laura García Lorca Herself Sara Baras Herself Miguel Poveda Himself

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Liliana Achuy-Fan Herself

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Mario Ávila Himself

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María Cortina Herself