Riders of the Dawn

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
Distributed by RTVE
Release date(s) 1990
Running time 250 min ( five episodes)
Language Spanish

Riders of the Dawn (Spanish: Los Jinetesdel 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 a five episodes television minisieres, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two part feature film.

Synopsis

Los Jinetes del Alba is a film adaptation of a novel by Jesús Fernández Santos, made as a five parts TV miniseries. It follows the life of Marian, a young woman who greatest ambitions is to be the owner of the 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 with the arrival of the Asturian revolution of 1934 and the Spanish Civil War.

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