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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.

Top Cast

  • Anthony Quinn

    Anthony Quinn

    Mosen Joaquín

  • Jorge Sanz

    Jorge Sanz

    Pepe

  • Paloma Gómez

    Paloma Gómez

    Valentina

  • María Rubio

    María Rubio

    Valentina adulta

  • Saturno Cerra

    Saturno Cerra

    Don José

  • Concha Leza

    Concha Leza

    Doña Luisa

  • Alfred Lucchetti

    Alfred Lucchetti

    Don Arturo

  • Marisa de Leza

    Marisa de Leza

    Doña Julia

  • Eusebio Poncela

    Eusebio Poncela

    Narrador

Overview

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.

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