Riders of the Dawn (1990 film)

Riders of the Dawn (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.

Cast

 * Victoria Abril as Marian
 * Jorge Sanz as Martín
 * Maribel Verdú as Raquel
 * Graciela Borges as Dona Amalia
 * Fernando Guillén as Don Erasmo
 * Gloria Muñoz as Adamina
 * Antonio Iranzo as El Santero
 * Joan Miralles as Ventura
 * Nacho Martínez as Juan (Raquel's father)
 * Claudia Gravy as Dona Elvira
 * Carlos Tristancho as Quincelibras
 * Lola Baldrich as Aida
 * Conrado San Martín as the doctor
 * Paco Catalá as the priest