Copacabana Bar- Scene of a movie

In 1880, Mr. Tomás Ribalta requested permission to build a warehouse on a plot of land he owned, at number 6 Pasaje de la Banca, which together with the Bosc de les Fades (1878) and the Wax Museum (1873) We can now confirm that Domingo Balet was the architect of the entire set of buildings found in this octagonal square.

Years later, around the decade of the 60's, the Copacabana Bar was established in this place, offering an offer of live music and flamenco shows that had as a regular audience local customers, sailors and the first tourists in the city who were looking for the "Typical Spanish" folklore.

In that same decade, a scene from the movie "Far from the trees" was shot at the Copacabana. We leave below a link with the scene published on YouTube that immortalizes the moment.

Today the facade of the building has been modified with a door to be able to access it by car since inside, it seems that there is a parking lot.

Plans

Fragment of the film in Copacabana

Synopsis and information of the movie: Far from the trees

"Lejos en los árboles" is articulated as an anti-tourist trip through a Spain of wild popular festivals, a country that at that time was beginning to offer itself to the world as a supposed space of opening towards modernity; reality that Jacinto Esteva questions with the same fascination with which he portrays a country ravaged by poverty, superstition and ferocious rural traditions, but also urban ones.

Year: 1972

Duration: 100 min.

Country: Spain

Direction: Jacinto Esteva

Screenplay: Jacinto Esteva

Music: Johnny Galvao, Carlos Maleras, Marco Rossi

Photography: Juan Amorós, Juan Julio Baena, Luis Cuadrado, Francisco Marín, Milton Stefani (B&W)

Cast: Documentary, interventions by: Antonio Borrero "Chamaco", Antonio Gades

Production company: Filmscontact

Genre: Documentary

*Currently you can see the film on FilmIn