Film

1919, Chronicle of Dawn

1983 · 1h 30m · Drama

IMDb

6.6

In 1939, José Garcés is in French prison camp after the defeat of Spain's Republicans. To entertain and inspire his fellow prisoners, he tells the story of becoming a man in 1919, the year he realized that learning to live is the same as learning to die. His stiff and demanding father loses a fortune in German war bonds, takes a job in Caspe, and leaves José on his own in Zaragoza to finish high school while apprenticing in a pharmacy. José courts his beloved Valentina via letters, becomes intimate with Isabel, a maid he meets in a cinema who shares his ideas of free love, and comes under the influence of El Checa, an anarchist and gentle teacher who leads a doomed revolt.

Miguel Molina

José Garcés

Cristina Marsillach

Isabel

Walter Vidarte

Antonio Betancourt

Letux

• Antonio José BetancorDirector

Release date

August 29, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama