Grief wears a nurse's uniform in this twisted 1950s Spanish melodrama.
As every year, the happy marriage of Luis and Isabel wakes up ready to celebrate her onomastics her and that of her daughter, unaware that the day reserves a tragic twist in the destiny of their lives, because the girl dies in a fatal accident. The impression is so strong that Isabel becomes mad until the point of being confined in a sanatorium. And looking for her health, the doctor forbids Luis to see his wife. He can only get news from her via Emilia, the young nurse who cares for Isabel.
Acting
Rivelles' descent into grief-stricken madness is operatic perfection.
Costume
Emilia's crisp white uniform vs. Isabel's unraveling elegance.
Director
Luis Lucia
Amparo Rivelles
Isabel
Ana Mariscal
Enfermera Emilia
Eduardo Fajardo
Luis
Manuel Luna
Padre Víctor
Manolo Fábregas
Javier
Jesús Tordesillas
Antonio - padre de Isabel
Fernando Fernández de Córdoba
Doctor Hernández
Mariano Asquerino
Pediatra
Eloísa Muro
Vicenta - madre de Isabel
Antonio Riquelme
Gutiérrez
Irene Caba Alba
Enferma mental 1
Ena Sedeño
Enfermera Adela
Arturo Marín
Viandante
Francisco Bernal
José, cochero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's Spain, the film channels Catholic melodrama traditions while skirting direct censorship of female desire.
Ana Mariscal was one of Spain's few female director-actors; her Emilia is complicit and victim simultaneously.
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