Yerma [videorecording] / Artimagen Producciones presenta, con la participatión de Televisión Española ; producida por Carlos Jorge Fraga and Manuel de Casas-Montesinos ; adaptación y guión, Pilar Távora ; dirigido por Pilar Tavora.
Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Irene Papas, Juan Diego. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999 (c1998). Based on a work of the same title by Federico García Lorca.
Summary:
Yerma is the lonely housewife of a Spanish farmer. She longs to have a child, but believes she is unable to conceive. Upon learning from an elderly psychic woman that the problem may have more to do with her husband, Yerma rebels against her lonely life and her place in society.
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