92 minutos
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.
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
Concha Hidalgo
Tía Ignacia
Luis Ciges
Médico
Emilio Fornet
Pastor
Antonio Canal
Garcés
Teresa González
Cocinera
Rafael Vaquero
Alcalde
Guillermo Carmona
Guarda
Cristina Durán
Pilar
Margarita Aponte
Maruja
Alicia Sáinz de la Maza
Concha
Isabel Arce
Luisa
Felipe Castellanos
Carrasco
Javier Gómez
Colaso
Damián Jareño
Julián
