Riña en un café

Riña en un café or Barralla en un café (in Dutch: a hassle at café) is a Catalan film by Fructuós Gelabert i Badiella and Santiago Biosca from 1897.He is widely regarded as the feature film according with a real story line from Spain. [1]

The film was shot with a fixed camera on an inner courtyard of the Vapor Vell, a textile factory in next to the casino of Barcelona Sants. The actors were friends of Gelabert and Biosca, and the Extras the ordinary customers of the café.

The film was first shown during the Festa Major of Sants, along with some short documentaries of Gelabert and some short films by the Lumière brothers. Riña impressed especially the public, it was the first time they saw a movie in a neighborhood that they knew. This success contributed that exhibit his head of film making and Gelabert-job made. [2]  until then was filmmaking especially a pastime for scientists and inventors.

On some pictures after, the original copy is lost. Gelabert has created a new version In 1952, which is kept in the Filmoteca de Catalunya. [3] ==Story[ Edit] == Two men are in love with the same ballet dancer and start to argue in a neighborhood café d'r attention. Through the intervention of young bystanders stopped the fight and in the end gives everyone the hand.