Cloak of silence over murder that inspired a poet
At the end of an isolated track near the village of Nijar is a pile of stones where local people occasionally stop to make the sign of the cross and add a pebble to the cairn before silently walking on.
It marks the spot where Francisco Montes was shot three times in the head with his own revolver on July 22, 1928. The crime inspired one of Spain's greatest pieces of literature, the play Blood Wedding, written by the country's best-known 20th century poet, Federico García Lorca.
But the real story of the killing seems likely to remain a mystery as film-makers have run up against a wall of silence in their attempt to get to the truth. [...]
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