The aim of this paper is to observe how Federico García Lorca’s tragedy is transposed from the literary to the cinematic medium. Conceived by director Carlos Saura as a cinematic reconstruction of a rehearsal of Antonio Gades’ ballet company, the film preserves the poetic atmosphere and symbolism of Lorca’s play, offering an exemplary cinematic interpretation of this story of love, tradition, destiny and death, a story similar to the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet.