While the Fallas Burn (1929)

Subtitles for: While the Fallas Burn (1929)

Film directed by Miguel Monleón with plot and intertitles by Valencian journalists José Fernández Caireles and Federico Miñana. It is a fictionalized documentary on Valencia's festivity that takes a fictional story as its common thread, the journey of a jealous husband, Chordi, from Alcoi to the city looking for his wife, Riteta, who is gone with a friend to see the Fallas after arguing with his man about his new film-inspired haircut.