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The Lioness of Castille
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Wikipedia article
'The Lioness of Castille' (Spanish: 'La leona de Castilla') is a 1951 Spanish historical drama film directed by Juan de Ordua and starring Amparo Rivelles, Virgilio Teixeira and Alfredo Mayo.
De Ordua had directed a number of the most expensive Spanish costume films of the era for the leading studio CIFESA. The film portrays the sixteenth century noblewoman Mara Pacheco, in a fictitious story that has her battling foreign agents during the reign of Charles V.Bentley p.101
Synopsis
After his defeat in the Battle of Villalar, Juan de Padilla, chief of the comuneros, is executed by beheading together with Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado in the presence of his wife Mara de Pacheco and his son. After that they swear, before the Council of the city of Toledo, to avenge her death and continue the war against Carlos I. She is a Castilian lady of high rank, with fragile health but strong character who reacts heroically and participates in dangerous combats against the tyranny of King Carlos I, becoming the Leona de Castilla, a symbol of oppressed popular freedoms.
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Bibliography
* Bentley, Bernard. 'A Companion to Spanish Cinema'. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
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