The Day the Fiesta Exploded Written and narrated by Ian Wooldridge
To some it is a religious festival, to others the last great bacchanalian orgy. To the world Pamplona, in the foothills of the Spanish Pyrenees, is the town where, for seven successive dawns each July, young men and madmen and brave men and frightened men and drunks run through narrow, cobbled streets in front of fighting bulls. Some die. One man died last year, but not in the dawn nor from a goring. He was struck by a bullet at dead of night. The Fiesta of San Fermin, immortalised by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, was suddenly invaded by a new and sinister dimension of death.
Film cameramen MARTIN PATMORE
RICHARD ADAM Film recordist RODNEY BOND
Film editor AUGUSTE NUNES Producer MICHAEL BEGG