''Teresa'' is a 2015 television film directed by

Jorge Dorado Jorge Dorado (born December 8, 1976) is a Spanish director, screenwriter and producer. He received Goya Award nominations for his short film '' La guerra'', his documentary short ''Nuevos tiempos'', and his directorial feature film debut '' Mindsc ...

from a screenplay by Juanma Romero which stars Marian Álvarez as the title character alongside David Luque,

Carla Díaz Carla Díaz (born 19 July 1998) is a Spanish actress and dancer. She is known for her performances in '' Tierra de lobos'', '' El Príncipe'' and '' Seis hermanas''. Biography Diaz was born in Madrid on 19 July 1998. Her parents operate a dan ...

Terele Pávez Teresa Marta Ruiz Penella (29 July 1939 – 11 August 2017), better known as Terele Pávez, was a Spanish actress. She appeared in more than ninety films since 1954. She died on 11 August 2017 due to a stroke at the age of 78. Selected fil ...

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis (born 5 November 1968) is a Spanish-Italian film actress. Biography She was born in Rome on 5 November 1968, to a Spanish father , a history lecturer exiled from Francoism, and an Italian mother, Fiorella d ...

, and Antonio de la Torre.

Plot

In 2015

Ávila Ávila (, , ) is a city of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m abov ...

, a teenager coping with her father's death and with

school bullying School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim repeatedly by acting aggressively toward their victim. Bullying can be verb ...

opens a

Teresa of Ávila Teresa of Ávila, OCD (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada; 28 March 15154 or 15 October 1582), also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Spanish Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer. Active during t ...

's autobiography, with the plot going on to account for the 16th-century Carmelite nun's biography.

Cast

Production

The film was co-produced by

Televisión Española Televisión Española (acronym TVE, branded tve, "Spanish Television") is Spain's national state-owned public television broadcaster and the oldest regular television service in the country. It was also the first regular television service in ...

and La Cometa TV. Shooting locations included

Soria Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 ( INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial populati ...

, Alcalá de Henares and

El Escorial El Escorial, or the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial ( es, Monasterio y Sitio de El Escorial en Madrid), or Monasterio del Escorial (), is a historical residence of the King of Spain located in the town of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, u ...

Release

''Teresa'' premiered at the 63rd

San Sebastián International Film Festival The San Sebastián International Film Festival ( SSIFF; es, Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, eu, Donostia Zinemaldia) is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of Donostia-San Sebastián in September, in ...

(Zinemaldia) on 24 September 2015.

RTVE The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española or RTVE, is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service know ...

set a television debut on La 1 for 17 November 2015.

References

{{authority control 2010s Spanish-language films 2010s Spanish films 2015 television films RTVE shows Spanish television films Cultural depictions of Teresa of Ávila Films shot in the province of Ávila Films shot in the province of Soria Films set in Castile and León Films set in the 16th century Films about Catholic nuns Films set in 2015 Films shot in Alcalá de Henares Films scored by Federico Jusid