''Orosia'' is a 1944 Spanish

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Florián Rey Antonio Martínez del Castillo known professionally as Florián Rey was a Spanish director, actor, and screenwriter. He directed '' The Cursed Village'', widely recognized as a seminal work in silent Spanish cinema, and helped launch the career o ...

and starring

Blanca de Silos Blanca de Silos (2 August 1914 – 13 September 2002) was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in fifteen films, including playing the title role in '' Mariona Rebull'' (1947).San Miguel & Hortelano p.20 Selected filmography * '' Raza'' (1942) * ...

, José Nieto and Nicolás D. Perchicot.Bentley p.84

Synopsis

The story begins in 1900 with the imminent wedding between Orosia Garcés de Abarca and Eloy Sancho de Embún. But her happiness will be cut short when the future husband is stabbed to death as a result of the rivalries of the nightly serenades before the bride's balcony. The neighbors suspect the quarrelsome Venancio and Joselón de Urríes, a former suitor of Orosia.

Cast

as Orosia * José Nieto as Joselón * Nicolás D. Perchicot as Don Pablo * María Brú as Sabel * Delfín Jerez as Gracián * José Sepúlveda as Venancio *

José Isbert José Enrique Benito y Emeterio Ysbert Alvarruiz (3 March 1886 in Madrid – 28 November 1966 in Madrid), also known as José Isbert and/or Pepe Isbert, was a Spanish actor. Biography Early life In 1903 he worked at the Court of Accounts (Trib ...

as Don Cándido * Ángel Belloc as Eloy * Mariana Larrabeiti as Jacinta *

Julia Lajos Julia Lajos (24 February 1894 – 21 June 1963) was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1926 and 1963. Selected filmography * ''A Palace for Sale'' (1942) * ''Orosia (film), Orosia'' (1943) * ''Lady in Ermin ...

as Rosa * Antonia Plana as Doña Clara *

Salvador Videgain Salvador Videgain García (26 February 1886 – 12 October 1947) was a Spanish author and theatrical actor, director and producer. He was known for performing comedic and zarzuela roles in Spain and the Américas during the first half of the 20 ...

as judge Don Alonso *

Luis Pérez de León Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...

as Calixto * Ana María Quijada as Remigia * Ana de Leyva as Blasa * Luis Villasiul as Don Valentín * Lolita Valcárcel as Vicenta *

Fernando Sancho Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor. Biography He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during o ...

as Mañico bronquista

References

Bibliography

* Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer 2008.

External links

* Spanish drama films 1944 films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Florián Rey Spanish black-and-white films 1944 drama films 1940s Spanish films {{1940s-Spain-film-stub