Valentina

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Anthony Quinn

Mosen Joaquín

Age : 86 | Popularity : 81%

Jorge Sanz

Pepe

Age : 55 | Popularity : 34%

Paloma Gómez

Valentina

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

María Rubio

Valentina adulta

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Saturno Cerra

Don José

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Concha Leza

Doña Luisa

Age : N/A | Popularity : 16%

Alfred Lucchetti

Don Arturo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Marisa de Leza

Doña Julia

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Antonio José Betancor
Writing	Writer	Lautaro Murúa Antonio José Betancor Carlos Escobedo
	Writers' Assistant	Javier Moro
	Novel	Ramón J. Sender
Editing	Editor	Eduardo Biurrun
Art	Art Direction	Félix Murcia
	Production Design	Javier Artiñano
Camera	Director of Photography	Juan Ruiz Anchía
Sound	Original Music Composer	Riz Ortolani
Department	Role	Name

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