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Riders of the Dawn (1990 film)

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Riders of the Dawn
Directed byVicente Aranda
Written byVicente Aranda
Joaquin Jorda
Produced byJosé Luis Tafur
RTVE
StarringVictoria Abril
Jorge Sanz
Maribel Verdú
CinematographyJuan Amorós
Edited byTeresa Font
Music byJosé Nieto
Distributed byRTVE
Release date
  • 1990 (1990) (Spain)
Running time
250 minutes (five episodes)
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Riders of the Dawn (Template:Lang-es) 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 for Televisión Española, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two-part feature film. The miniseries was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española in 1991.

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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