BigList
Login / Sign up
Valentina (1982)

Valentina (1982)

Drama
Release Date: 1982, November 12
Directors: Antonio José Betancor
Countries: Spain
Production: Ofelia Films, Kaktus Producciones Cinematográficas, TVE, TVE
Cast: Saturno Cerra, Jorge Sanz, Anthony Quinn, Eusebio Poncela, María Rubio, Javier Gómez, Alfred Lucchetti, Concha Hidalgo, Paloma Gómez, Marisa de Leza, Luis Ciges, Antonio Canal

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.