Valentina (1982)

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92 min - Drama - 12 November 1982 (Spain)

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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... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Anthony Quinn	...	Mosen Joaquín
	Jorge Sanz	...	Pepe
	Paloma Gómez	...	Valentina
	Saturno Cerra	...	Don José
	Concha Leza	...	Doña Luisa (as Conchita Leza)
	Alfred Lucchetti	...	Don Arturo (as Alfredo Lucchetti)
	Marisa de Leza	...	Doña Julia
	Eusebio Poncela	...	Narrador
	Concha Hidalgo	...	Tia Ignacia
	Luis Ciges	...	Médico
	María Rubio	...	Valentina - adulta
	Emilio Fornet	...	Pastor
	Antonio Canal	...	Garcés
	Teresa González	...	Cocinera
	Rafael Vaquero	...	Alcalde (as Rafael Vakero)

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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. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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