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María Cuadra
- Rosina
- (as Maria Cuadra)
Luchy Soto
- Casilda
- (as Luchi Soto)
Rosanna Yanni
- Flora
- (as Rosana Yanni)
José Sacristán
- Posadero
- (as Jose Sacristan)
Vicente Sardinero
- Capitán Leonello
- (singing voice)
Josefina Cubeiro
- Rosina
- (singing voice)
Lily Bergman
- Flora
- (singing voice)
Francisco Saura
- Lombardi
- (singing voice)
José Luis Angulo
- Paolo- voz
- (uncredited)
Ángel María Baltanás
- Capitán Leonello
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Pilar Calvo
- Dama en reunión- voz
- (uncredited)
Luis Frutos
- Lombardi
- (uncredited)
Mari Ángeles Herranz
- Rosina
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Delia Luna
- Flora
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia3 different actors played 1 character on the movie. One was the original actor, the second was his dubbing voice and the third was his singing voice. This happened on 4 characters: Capitán Leonello, Rosina, Flora and Lombardi. The dubbing voices were uncredited, the singing voices only appeared on the end credits. Lombardi had only his singing voice credited, the actor who played him and his dubbing voice don't.
Featured review
Why didn't José Sacristán play Toribio?
This is one of a series of zarzuela adaptations made for Spanish television in the late sixties, and the first of the bunch I have seen. I guess it's representative of the lot in being amusing and watchable but coming across as phony, since they cast screen actors and dubbed singing voices over them instead of using singing stage actors-singers, and it's also one of those screen productions in which a character sits in front of a piano, starts singing while pretending to play it, and out of nowhere comes a full orchestra that includes everything... except for a piano. If that kind of stuff is okay with you and you're musically inclined, you could do worse than watching this one.
However, there's a gigantic missed opportunity here: the potentially funniest and most memorable character is Toribio Clarinetti the street musician turned fake prince, and the cast includes the great José Sacristán, which if cast in that role would have easily stolen the picture and created something truly memorable with it. Unfortunately Sacristán is wasted in the comparatively dull role of the innkeeper while Toribio is played by one Antonio Martelo that I wasn't familiar with before and while he's not terrible he doesn't do much in the role either, plus he looks too old for the part. Since they're both non-singing characters, they could have easily switched roles for the viewer's benefit.
This is the only filming of this particular zarzuela so if one likes the genre it may be interesting, and also Rosanna Yanni looks gorgeous as the courtesan. Though a version with real singing actors would have been much preferable, for my tastes at least. 5/10.
However, there's a gigantic missed opportunity here: the potentially funniest and most memorable character is Toribio Clarinetti the street musician turned fake prince, and the cast includes the great José Sacristán, which if cast in that role would have easily stolen the picture and created something truly memorable with it. Unfortunately Sacristán is wasted in the comparatively dull role of the innkeeper while Toribio is played by one Antonio Martelo that I wasn't familiar with before and while he's not terrible he doesn't do much in the role either, plus he looks too old for the part. Since they're both non-singing characters, they could have easily switched roles for the viewer's benefit.
This is the only filming of this particular zarzuela so if one likes the genre it may be interesting, and also Rosanna Yanni looks gorgeous as the courtesan. Though a version with real singing actors would have been much preferable, for my tastes at least. 5/10.
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- DwightFry
- Nov 14, 2017
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Das Lied des Vergessens
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- Runtime2 hours
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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