Riders of the Dawn (1990 film)

250 minutes (five episodes)CountrySpainLanguageSpanish

Riders of the Dawn (Spanish: Los Jinetes del Alba) is a 1990 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda, an adaptation of a novel by Jesús Fernández Santos. It stars Victoria Abril and Jorge Sanz.

Made as five-episode television miniseries for Televisión Española, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two-part feature film. The miniseries was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española in 1991.

Synopsis

The plot follows the life of Marian, a young woman whose greatest ambition is to be the owner of the spa resort, where she works. The action is set in Las Caldas, a small town in Asturias, where the lives of its inhabitants are forever changed by the arrival of the Asturian revolution of 1934 and the Spanish Civil War.

Cast

• Victoria Abril as Marian
• Jorge Sanz as Martín
• Maribel Verdú as Raquel
• Graciela Borges as Dona Amalia
• Fernando Guillén as Don Erasmo
• Gloria Muñoz as Adamina
• Antonio Iranzo as El Santero
• Joan Miralles as Ventura
• Nacho Martínez as Juan (Raquel's father)
• Claudia Gravy as Dona Elvira
• Carlos Tristancho as Quincelibras
• Lola Baldrich as Aida
• Conrado San Martín as the doctor
• Paco Catalá as the priest

External links

• Web Oficial de Vicente Aranda
• Riders of the Dawn at IMDb