Vicente Blasco Ibáñez wrote in 1898 "La barraca" (The Shack), a novel with some cultural significance among Spanish literature for reflecting rural life at the end of 19th century with specific local color. In 1979, León Klimovsky directed an adaptation in the form of a miniseries. The shack referred to in the title is a barraca, a typical building of the Valencian Community that served as housing for farmers in irrigated farming areas.

1979 miniseries by León Klimovsky

television series

Alonso Quijano, un hidalgo manchego de unos 50 años y de mediana posición económica, queda hasta tal punto trastornado por la lectura de los libros de caballería que decide salir a buscar aventuras acompañado de su fiel escudero Sancho Panza. La peculiar locura de Don Quijote, la fascinación que despierta en Sancho su señor y la bondad de ambos personajes contrastan con la brutalidad, las burlas y el escarnio de que son objeto por parte de aquellos a quienes tratan de ayudar.

This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed future, fuelled by the notions of freedom and dreams of living just as his countrymen, ever-growing in his mind. Nothing and no-one can stop him. After escaping the Puerto de Santa María prison, the reunion with his family is just the beginning of what will become an endless escape.

Lara, the host of a radio call-in show dealing in psychic phenomena, discovers that her estranged lover has been found dead in a small Spanish village.