Amaya (1952 film)
| Amaya | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Luis Marquina |
| Written by | Jesús Azcarreta Luis Marquina |
| Based on | Amaya by Francisco Navarro Villoslada |
| Starring | Susana Canales Julio Peña José Bódalo |
| Cinematography | Heinrich Gärtner José F. Aguayo |
| Edited by | Magdalena Pulido |
Production company | Producciones Cinematográficas Hudesa |
| Distributed by | CIFESA |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Amaya is a 1952 Spanish historical drama film directed by Luis Marquina and starring Susana Canales, Julio Peña and José Bódalo.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Luis Pérez Espinosa.
An adaptation of Francisco Navarro Villoslada's historical novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, Marquina's version features a visceral judeophobia amplified from the original work, which pushes a conspiracy narrative attributing the "711 loss of Spain" to a Jewish plot.[3] The film's antisemitic sentiment is strongly displayed in sequences such as those involving the uprising of the Pamplona's jewry, and the imprisoning of Basque Christians.[4]
Cast
- Susana Canales as Amaya
- Julio Peña as Íñigo García
- José Bódalo as Teodosio
- Pedro Porcel as Vladimiro
- Porfiria Sanchíz as Amagoys
- Ramón Elías as Hermano Paconio
- Francisco Pierrá as Miguel de Goñi
- Rafael Luis Calvo as Eudonio
- Eugenia Zúffoli as Constanza
- Armando Moreno as Capitán Munio
- Manuel Aguilera as Ausonio
- Rafael Arcos as Pelayo
- Arturo Marín as Asben
- Manolo Morán as Saturnino Aizcur
- Miguel Pastor as Anatolio
- Mónica Pastrana as Olaya
- Santiago Rivero as Echeverría
- Luisa Rodrigo as Petronila
References
- ^ Goble p.669
- ^ Oliete-Aldea, Oria & Tarancón p.34
- ^ Maggi, Eugenio (2014). "Amaya de Navarro Villoslada en el siglo XX: avatares de una narración antijudaica". Impossibilia. Revista Internacional de Estudios Literarios (7). Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada: 127. ISSN 2174-2464.
- ^ Prieto Arciniega, Alberto (2010). "El franquismo en el cine: Amaya" (PDF). La Historia a través del cine: memoria e historia en la España de la posguerra. p. 58. ISBN 84-8373-460-5.
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Oliete-Aldea, Elena, Oria, Beatriz & Tarancón Juan A. Global Genres, Local Films: The Transnational Dimension of Spanish Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015.