Amaya

Based On the book by Francisco Navarro Villoslada

Amaya is a 1952 Spanish historical drama film directed by Luis Marquina and starring Susana Canales, Julio Peña and José Bódalo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Luis Pérez Espinosa. An adaptation of Francisco Navarro Villoslada's historical novel Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII, Marquina's version features a visceral judeophobia amplified from the original work, which pushes a conspiracy narrative attributing the "711 loss of Spain" to a Jewish plot. The film's antisemitic sentiment is strongly displayed in sequences such as those involving the uprising of the Pamplona's jewry, and the imprisoning of Basque Christians.

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Release date:

October 1, 1952

Director:

Luis Marquina

Cast:

José Bódalo, Rafael Luis Calvo, Susana Canales, Félix Dafauce, Armando Moreno Gómez

Genre:

Period drama

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Year page:

1952 in adaptations