Los Tarantos is a 1963 Spanish musical drama film directed by Francisco Rovira Beleta.
[1] The film is based on the play La historia de los Tarantos written by Alfredo Mañas, and inspired by Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
The love between two gypsies, Juana La Zoronga and Rafael El Taranto, from different families in Barcelona, is thwarted by the enmity between their respective parents.
They fall in love, aided by their younger siblings, who are secretly friends and sympathetic to the young lovers.
Desperate, Juana seeks Rafael out in his dovecote, and they make love, planning to elope the following day.