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Riders of the Dawn is a film directed by Vicente Aranda with Victoria Abril
Riders of the Dawn (1990)
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Add to a movie listRiders of the Dawn (Spanish: Los Jinetes del 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 five-episode television miniseries, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two-part feature film.
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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.Actors
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