Riders of the Dawn (1990 film)

{{Short description|1990 film by Vicente Aranda}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Riders of the Dawn

| image = Los Jinetes del alba 1990.jpg

| caption =

| director = Vicente Aranda

| producer = José Luis Tafur
RTVE

| writer = Vicente Aranda
Joaquin Jorda

| starring = Victoria Abril
Jorge Sanz
Maribel Verdú

| music = José Nieto

| cinematography = Juan Amorós

| editing = Teresa Font

| distributor = RTVE

| released = {{Film date|1990| | |Spain}}

| runtime = 250 minutes (five episodes)

| country = Spain

| language = Spanish

| budget =

}}

Riders of the Dawn ({{langx|es|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 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.

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