Crónica del Alba Collection ( 1919, Crónica del Alba / Valentina, Crónica del Alba )

Crónica del Alba Collection (Blu-Ray) (*)

$34.99

Original Title: 1919, Crónica del Alba / Valentina, Crónica del Alba
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Linear PCM )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
172 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1982-1983 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Antonio Jose Betancor

Written By:
Antonio Jose Betancor
Carlos Escobedo
Javier Moro
Lautaro Murúa
Ramón J. Sender

Actors:
Miguel Molina ..... José Garcés
Cristina Marsillach ..... Isabel
Walter Vidarte
Saturno Cerra
Concha Leza ..... Don Hermógenes
Alfred Lucchetti ..... Doña Julia
Fernando Sancho ..... Tía Ignacia
José Antonio Correa ..... Valentina
Marisa de Leza ..... Sr. Villanueva
Concha Hidalgo ..... Sra. Villanueva
Emma Suarez ..... Cocainómana
Juan José Otegui ..... Alcalde
Rosa Fontana ..... Médico
Aurora Pastor ..... Sr. Fernández
Rafael Vaquero ..... Beltrán
José María Labernié ..... Letux
Claudio Rodríguez ..... Palmao
Pedro Martínez ..... Loca
Antonio Betancourt ..... Cocinera
Raúl Fraire ..... Linares
Pepa Valiente ..... Trini
Teresa Guaida ..... Remedios
Fernando Mancebo ..... Atilio
Dolores Mateo ..... Godoy
Manuela Madrid ..... Gonzalvo
Paco Catalá ..... Dolcet
Francesc Lucchetti ..... Felipe
Guillermo Arce ..... Juan
Gabriel Jiménez ..... Maruja
Damián Gaubeka ..... Concha
Lorenzo Cabello ..... Pilar
María José García
María de la Maza
Yolanda Durán
Alberto de Diego
Enrique Pérez
Enrique Simón
Cándida Tena
Anthony Quinn ..... Mosen Joaquín
Jorge Sanz ..... Pepe
Paloma Gómez ..... Valentina
Saturno Cerra ..... Don José
Concha Leza ..... Doña Luisa
Alfred Lucchetti ..... Don Arturo
Marisa de Leza ..... Doña Julia
Eusebio Poncela ..... Narrador
Concha Hidalgo ..... Tía Ignacia
Luis Ciges ..... Médico
María Rubio ..... Valentina - adulta
Emilio Fornet ..... Pastor
Antonio Canal ..... Garcés
Teresa González ..... Cocinera
Rafael Vaquero ..... Alcalde
Guillermo Carmona ..... Guarda
Cristina Durán ..... Pilar
Margarita River ..... Maruja
Alicia Sáinz de la Maza ..... Concha
Isabel Arce ..... Luisa
Felipe Castellanos ..... Carrasco
Javier Gómez ..... Colaso
Damián Jareño ..... Julián

Synopsis:

1919, crónica del alba: In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt. 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.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 01 August, 2022.