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Valentina
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
Cast
- Anthony Quinn as Mosen Joaquín
- Jorge Sanz as Pepe
- Paloma Gómez as Valentina
- María Rubio as Valentina adulta
- Saturno Cerra as Don José
- Concha Leza as Doña Luisa
- Alfred Lucchetti as Don Arturo
- Marisa de Leza as Doña Julia
- Eusebio Poncela as Narrador
- Concha Hidalgo as Tía Ignacia
- Luis Ciges as Médico
- Emilio Fornet as Pastor
Details
- Director
- Antonio José Betancor
- Released
- November 12, 1982
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Drama
- Studio
- Ofelia Films, Kaktus Producciones Cinematográficas and TVE
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.1 / 10 from 19 votes
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