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.
Antonio José Betancor
Director, Writer
Lautaro Murúa
Writer
Carlos Escobedo
Writer
Anthony Quinn
Mosen Joaquín
Jorge Sanz
Pepe
Paloma Gómez
Valentina
María Rubio
Valentina adulta
Saturno Cerra
Don José
Concha Leza
Doña Luisa
Alfred Lucchetti
Don Arturo
Marisa de Leza
Doña Julia
Eusebio Poncela
Narrador
La celda de los milagros79%
Reading Lolita in Tehran73%
Noche de fuego76%
La joven69%
Marcelino pan y vino73%
I'm Not Here58%
Cardboard Boxer63%
Three Christs66%
El Chicano66%
Brotherly Love70%
El séptimo día66%
Girl in the Box66%
Charm City Kings78%
El encanto62%
What Maisie Knew71%
Hands of Stone66%
Kamchatka66%
Home67%
All Together Now67%
Intemperie66%
