Within the programme of activities to enjoy from home Three Cultures with youIn substitution of the screenings of the Tuesday Film Series, the Foundation offers the screening of Martirio (Spain, 2017, 70 minutes), a documentary about the figure of the great Andalusian singer who broke with all the stereotypes in the 80s and became one of the most famous an icon of transgression and modernity.
During the 80s and 90s, Martirio enjoyed great success not only for her artistic quality but also for her popular and at the same time exquisite, classical and avant-garde sympathy. Throughout For two years the Sacromonte Films team has accompanied her in concerts and conferences on women and copla, in her travels in Cuba and Mexico and also in her return to her native Huelva, but also in her private life, in which she plays the role of a proud mother before the first solo performance of her son Raúl Rodríguez.
Martirio counts her friends by the thousands, many of them artists who appear in the film, which includes unpublished and moving footage of private moments with personalities such as Chavela Vargas and Compay Segundo.
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