71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Flor de santidad

Adolfo Marsillach
Spain
Synopsis

In the middle of the last century, Galicia, already impoverished, has the situation aggravated by the Carlist War. A pilgrim is picked up by Adaga, a girl sheperd, in a stable. Some mystic rites convince the teenager that she is in the presence of a divine being. The country folk thereabouts see him as diabolic and put him to death. Adega considers them guilty of having killed an emissary from God and announces that she is going to have  his child. They believe her and come to see her as "La Santiña". The Carlists use Adega to further their cause, but superstition and the movements of the war quickly convert her into an enemy. She's declared a heretic and concemned to "The Night of the Demons". 

Director
Adolfo Marsillach (Spain)
Production
Avenir Films S.L. - Azor Films S.A. (Spain)
Running Time
109 m.
Country
Spain
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