''Rocío from La Mancha'' is a 1963 Spanish

musical film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the Character (arts), characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serv ...

directed by

Luis Lucia Luis Lucia Mingarro (24 May 1914, in Valencia – 12 March 1984, in Madrid) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His father, Luis Lucia, was the Spanish minister of communications in 1935. He studied Law and was the attorney of ...

and starring

Rocío Dúrcal María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz (4 October 1944 – 25 March 2006), better known as Rocío Dúrcal (), was a Spanish singer and actress with a career spanning more than four decades. She performed pop music, bolero, mariachi and romanti ...

Plot

A car accident changes an

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's life as she becomes the

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of her four brothers. She meets a woman who sets to return to her husband who is in Paris by asking Rocio to pretend that she is Isabel (the woman's daughter). The father (Carlos Estrada) hasn't seen her in 13 years and doesn't know that the real Isabel is dead.

Cast

* Carlos Estrada * Helga Liné * Roberto Camardiel * Carmen Lozano * Simón Andreu * José María Caffarel

Soundtrack

External links

* 1963 films 1960s Spanish-language films 1963 musical films Films directed by Luis Lucia Spanish musical films Films scored by Augusto Algueró 1960s Spanish films {{1960s-Spain-film-stub