Carmen
Spanish film poster
Directed by	Carlos Saura
Written by	Prosper Mérimée (novel) Carlos Saura Antonio Gades
Produced by	Emiliano Piedra
Starring	Antonio Gades Laura del Sol
Cinematography	Teo Escamilla
Edited by	Pedro del Rey
Music by	Paco de Lucía
Production company	Televisión Española
Distributed by	C.B. Films S.A.
Release date	6 May 1983 (1983-05-06)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Box office	$3.1 million (United States and Canada)[1]

Carmen is a 1983 Spanish film adaptation of the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, using music from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style by Carlos Saura and María Pagés. It is the second part of Saura's flamenco trilogy in the 1980s, preceded by Bodas de sangre and followed by El amor brujo. The film was an Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at the 56th Academy Awards.

The film's basic plotline is that the modern dancers re-enact in their personal lives Bizet's tragic love affair, up to its lethal climax.

Cast

Reception

Box office

The film was the highest-grossing Spanish film in the United States at the time, grossing $3.1 million.^[1] It was surpassed by Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).^[1] It sold 2,168,737 tickets in Germany and 871,824 in France.^[2]

Awards and nominations

The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was entered into the 1983 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize and the award for Best Artistic Contribution.^[3] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.^[4]