Riders of the Dawn (1990 film)

Riders of the Dawn
Directed by	Vicente Aranda
Produced by	José Luis Tafur RTVE
Written by	Vicente Aranda Joaquin Jorda
Starring	Victoria Abril Jorge Sanz Maribel Verdú
Music by	José Nieto
Cinematography	Juan Amorós
Edited by	Teresa Font
Distributed by	RTVE
Release dates	1990 (1990) (Spain)
Running time	250 minutes (five episodes)
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Riders of the Dawn (Spanish: Los Jinetes del Alba) 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.

Cast

• Victoria Abril as Marian
• Jorge Sanz as Martín
• Maribel Verdú as Raquel
• Graciela Borges as Dona Amalia
• Fernando Guillén as Don Erasmo
• Gloria Muñoz as Adamina
• Antonio Iranzo as El Santero
• Joan Miralles as Ventura
• Nacho Martínez as Juan (Raquel's father)
• Claudia Gravy as Dona Elvira
• Carlos Tristancho as Quincelibras
• Lola Baldrich as Aida
• Conrado San Martín as the doctor
• Paco Catalá as the priest

External links

• Web Oficial de Vicente Aranda
• Riders of the Dawn at IMDb