Synopsis

The action takes place during the first Carlist war in Maestrat (the Diccionario de la Zarzuela indicates the second, which took place between 1846/9, although this must be a slip of the tongue, as it correctly refers to it as the seven years: 1833/40). The work is a military tale in which a soldier steals some jewels from the Virgin of the Monastery of Lucena del Cid to give them to his bride, and when he is identified he is condemned to death. In the zarzuela the ending changes, as Cascales ‘the joy of the battalion’, grateful to Rafael Montoya, the thief who had saved his life in combat, intervenes in the case claiming that it was the Virgen de las Angustias – the one from his Granada – who gave him the jewels for Dolores, introducing the idea of a miracle which the Church and the army dare not deny, despite the fact that in the future any soldier who receives miraculous gifts will be shot.

Technical details

Directed by: Maximiliano Thous, 1924

Nationality: Foreign

Participating countries: Spain

Genre : Drama.

Release date : 10-11-1924 Valencia: Grande Teatro. , 09-12-1924 Madrid: Real Cinema. , 21-09-1925 Barcelona: Teatro Novedades.

Production company : COMPAÑÍA CINEMATOGRÁFICA HISPANO-PORTUGUESA

Plot: with music by José Serrano. Based on the play [cuento militar] by Carlos Arniches and Félix Quintana.

Script : Maximiliano Thous

Director of photography : José Gaspar

Set design: J. Pastor

Format: 35 mm / Black and white. Coloured copies / Mute

Cast

Anita Giner , Francisco Gómez Rosell , Leopoldo Pitarch , Julio M. Simón , Pepita Bastida , Encarnación Hurtado , Guillermo Blanquer , José Benítez , Vicente Chulvi , Arturo Terol , Francisco Villasante , Enrique Cuñat , Francisco Priego , José Virosque , José Baviera , Federico Gil

Filming locations

Murcia- Guadix (Granada) – Elche (Alicante) – Peñíscola (Castellón)- Sagunto (Valencia).

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