''Death's Newlyweds'' (Spanish: ''Novios de la muerte'') is a 1975 Spanish

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...

directed by

Rafael Gil Rafael Gil (22 May 1913 – 10 July 1986) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film ''La guerra de Dios'' (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián ...

.Bentley, Bernard. ''A Companion to Spanish Cinema''. Boydell & Brewer, 2008. p. 373. . The title refers to the famous song about and nickname for Spain's elite light infantry unit, the

Spanish Foreign Legion For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments () such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal ...

Cast

Julián Mateos Julián Mateos (15 January 1938 – 27 December 1996) was a Spanish actor and film producer. He appeared in 48 films and television shows between 1960 and 1980. He starred in the film ''The Robbers'', which was entered into the 12th Berlin ...

as Joaquín 'Chimo' *

Juan Luis Galiardo Juan Luis Galiardo Comes (2 March 1940 – 22 June 2012) was a Spanish television, theater and film actor. Life The eldest of six children, Juan Luis Galiardo Comes was born in San Roque, Cádiz, but spent most of his childhood and youth in ...

as Juan Ramón Soler *

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 or ...

as Commandant Lauria *

Ramiro Oliveros Ramiro Oliveros (13 March 1941 – 27 April 2023) was a Spanish film and television actor. Oliveros died on 27 April 2023, at the age of 82, the same day as his '' Cannibal Apocalypse'' co-star Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Selected filmography * ...

as Ricardo * Helga Liné as Amelia * José Nieto * Mary Begoña as Chimo's mother *Pedro Mari Sánchez * Rafael Hernández as Sergeant Gómez *Viky Lussón * *

Luis Induni Luis Induni (5 March 1920, in Romano di Lombardia, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy – 31 December 1979, in Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian film actor of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He made his debut in the western film ''Billy the Kid'' (1962) alon ...

*Antonio Cintado *Juan Ramón Torremocha *Manuel Torremocha *Leopoldo Francés * Scott Miller *Carlos Ballesteros as Sergeant Santaló

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* 1975 war films Spanish war films 1975 films 1970s Spanish-language films Films directed by Rafael Gil Films scored by Gregorio García Segura Films with screenplays by Rafael J. Salvia 1970s Spanish films Spanish-language war films {{1970s-Spain-film-stub