Valentina
Valentina
Release: 1982-11-12
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 6.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Spain
Production Companies
Ofelia Films
Kaktus Producciones Cinematográficas
TVE
Cast
Margarita Aponte
as Maruja
Marisa de Leza
as Doña Julia
Luis Ciges
as Médico
Antonio Canal
as Garcés
María Rubio
as Valentina adulta
Emilio Fornet
as Pastor
Anthony Quinn
as Mosen Joaquín
Paloma Gómez
as Valentina
Saturno Cerra
as Don José
Alfred Lucchetti
as Don Arturo
Eusebio Poncela
as Narrador
Jorge Sanz
as Pepe
Concha Hidalgo
as Tía Ignacia