The Moment of Truth (1965)
"Il momento della verità" (original title)

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Writers:

Pedro Beltrán (screenplay), Pedro Beltrán (story),

Stars:

Miguel Mateo 'Miguelín', José Gómez Sevillano, Pedro Basauri 'Pedrucho'

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Miguel Mateo 'Miguelín'	...	Miguel Romero 'Miguelín'
José Gómez Sevillano	...	Impresario
Pedro Basauri 'Pedrucho'	...	Himself
Linda Christian	...	Linda, American woman
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Curro Carmona
Luque Gago
Salvador Mateo
Gregorio Sánchez

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

bullfighter | procession | bullfighting | bullfight

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Italy Spain

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

3 March 1965 (Italy)

Also Known As:

The Moment of Truth

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 11,166,215 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

As Films Producción, Federiz

Technical Specs

Runtime:

110 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Featured in The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)

User Reviews

This movie dissipated much of my disgust at bull fighting.

To make a good movie about bull fighting one should first contract a great matador: and Miguel Mateo Miguelin could hardly be braver or more graceful. I saw the movie despite my modern distaste for that ahem sport: and was at least semi-converted. In ancient northern religions, with their male animal gods, the animal god presents himself to the people to be ritually slaughtered. The ritual must be beautiful. The ritual must be risky: potentially fatal for the killing-man-priest as well as for the animal-god. Migueline shows how it's done when it's done right.