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1919, Chronicle of Dawn (1983)
Directed by Antonio José Betancor
Drama · 1h 30m
In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.
Cast
Miguel Molina
Cristina Marsillach
Walter Vidarte
Crew
- Director
- Antonio José Betancor
Details
- Original title
- 1919, crónica del alba
- Release date
- 1983-08-29
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish