
Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.
Cast

Inma Cuesta
Hortensia

María León
Pepita

Marc Clotet
Paulino

Daniel Holguín
Felipe

Ana Wagener
Mercedes

Susi Sánchez
Sor Serafines

Berta Ojea
La Zapatones

Lola Casamayor
Reme

Ángela Cremonte
Elvira

Amparo Vega-León
Sole

Charo Zapardiel
Tomasa

Arantxa Aranguren
Conchita
Teresa Calo
Doña Celia

Begoña Maestre
Amelia

Jesús Noguero
Don Fernando

Miryam Gallego
Doña Amparo

Adelfa Calvo
La Legañosa

Amaia Lizarralde
La Topete

Lluís Marco
Don Gonzalo

Teresa Arbolí
Charo

Blanca Apilánez
Doña María
Eloísa Vargas
María Ferrer

Fermí Reixach
Prison Priest

María Garralón
Doña Julia

Javier Godino
Bishop's Secretary

Antonio Dechent
Examining Magistrate

Emilio Linder
Police Commissioner

Yiyo Alonso
Prison Doctor
Gemma Giménez
Tenchi (voice)
Amparo Marín
Juliana Carbonell
Crew

Benito Zambrano
Director, Writer

Ignacio del Moral
Writer
Carmen López Areal
Co-Writer
Dulce Chacón
Novel

Fernando Pardo
Editor

Álex Catalán
Director of Photography
Antonio P. Pérez
Producer

Ernesto Chao
Associate Producer
David Mantecón
Sound Editor
Jorge Mira
Sound Editor, Sound Mixer
Javier Losantos
Sound Mixer
Álvaro Silva Wuth
Sound Recordist
Magda Rosa Galván
Original Music Composer
Juan Antonio Leyva
Original Music Composer

Javier Fernández
Art Direction
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