La plena (1957)

Genre :

Runtime : 28M

Director : Amílcar Tirado

Synopsis

One of the DivEdCo's films that best depicts the history and evolution of another genre of popular music from the coasts and of African origin: the plena. It presents sequences of interpreters of those rhythms in Ponce, in the dances of the coastal areas, and the fusion of popular and refined genres in presentations by Ballets de San Juan of the ballet-plena by Amaury Veray, "Cuando las mujeres" ("When the Women").

Actors

Antonio Torres Martinó
Antonio Torres Martinó
Narrator

Crews

Amílcar Tirado
Amílcar Tirado
Director
Ricardo Alegría
Ricardo Alegría
Story
René Marqués
René Marqués
Writer
Héctor Moll
Héctor Moll
Sound Engineer
Amaury Veray
Amaury Veray
Music