Riders of the Dawn

Riders of the Dawn
Directed by Vicente Aranda
Produced by José Luis Tafur
RTVE
Written by Vicente Aranda
Joaquin Jorda
Starring Victoria Abril
Jorge Sanz
Maribel Verdú
Music by José Nieto
Cinematography Juan Amorós
Distributed by RTVE
Release dates
  • 1990 (1990) (Spain)
Running time
250 minutes (five episodes)
Language Spanish

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, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two-part feature film.

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.

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