El Santo de la Espada (1970)
Note: this print runs 102 minutes against a recorded 120 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Alfredo Alcón, Evangelina Salazar, Lautaro Murúa, Ana María Picchio, Héctor Alterio, Héctor Pellegrini, Walter Soubrié, Eduardo Pavlovsky
Directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
El Santo de la Espada (in English, The Saint of the Sword) is a 1970 Argentine historical epic film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Alfredo Alcón. It narrates the life of José de San Martín. It was written by Beatriz Guido and Luis Pico Estrada, based on the eponymous novel by Ricardo Rojas. The script was supervised by the Sanmartinian National Institute. It had a great success, and it is the most successful movie about "El Libertador" San Martín, although it received some negative reviews due to historical inaccuracies.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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