Lorca's "The Black Ball" brings together more than 150,000 viewers in the ACV

TheSpanish film La bola negra  is successfully spending the first weeks of its career in the commercial halls of Spain and the Southern Basque Country.

According to data provided bythe Association of Cinemas of theBasque Country, the film directed by JavierCalvo and Javier Ambross has brought together 150,760 viewers in two weeks in the ACV. In Bizkaia 77,086 people have gone tothe cinema to watch La bola negra 5 in Gipuzkoa and 19,429 in Álava.

The production of the Movistar Plus is inspired by the unpublished play by the writer Federico García Lorca, which tells the stories of three gay men, before, during and today, the Spanish Civil War, murdered in 1936 by rebels who carried out a coup against the Spanish Republic for being left-wing and homosexual.

The film, which was successfully released in Cannes and passed through the Festival, has already raised 1,017,192 euros in Basque cinemas: 528,659 euros in Bizkaia, 353,412 in Gipuzkoa and 135,121 in Álava.

In Spain, more than 3 million people have seen the film, and it has raised more than 21 million euros, making it one of the top ten Spanish productions.