Valentina

Valentina (1982)

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.

Director: Antonio José Betancor

Casts

	Anthony Quinn as Mosen Joaquín
	Jorge Sanz as Pepe
	Paloma Gómez as Valentina
	María Rubio as Valentina adulta
	Saturno Cerra as Don José
	Concha Leza as Doña Luisa
	Alfred Lucchetti as Don Arturo
	Marisa de Leza as Doña Julia
	Eusebio Poncela as Narrador
	Concha Hidalgo as Tía Ignacia
	Luis Ciges as Médico
	Emilio Fornet as Pastor
	Antonio Canal as Garcés
	Teresa González as Cocinera
	Rafael Vaquero as Alcalde
	Guillermo Carmona as Guarda
	Cristina Durán as Pilar
	Margarita Aponte as Maruja
	Alicia Sáinz de la Maza as Concha
	Isabel Arce as Luisa
	Felipe Castellanos as Carrasco
	Javier Gómez as Colaso
	Damián Jareño as Julián

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