Riders of the Dawn

Riders of the Dawn 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