A Time for Defiance

A Time for Defiance (Spanish: La hora de los valientes; lit. 'The Hour of the Brave') is a 1997 Spanish war drama film directed by Antonio Mercero about the Spanish Civil War. It stars Gabino Diego and Leonor Watling alongside Luis Cuenca and Adriana Ozores.

A Time for Defiance
Theatrical release poster
Spanish	La hora de los valientes
Directed by	Antonio Mercero
Written by	Horacio Varcárcel Antonio Mercero
Produced by	Enrique Cerezo
Starring	Gabino Diego Leonor Watling Adriana Ozores Luis Cuenca Héctor Colomé Ramón Langa Ramón Agirre Aten Soria Juan José Otegi José María Pou
Cinematography	Jaume Peracaula
Edited by	José María Biurrún
Music by	Bingen Mendizábal
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Antena 3 Vía Digital Enrique Cerezo
Distributed by	Columbia TriStar Films de España
Release date	18 December 1998 (1998-12-18)
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Plot

In Madrid, during the bombing of November 1936, in the Spanish Civil War, the Republican Government decided on the evacuation of paintings from the Prado Museum. Manuel, a 28-year-old security guard, finds a self-portrait of Goya abandoned in one corner. He hides the painting and flees the bombing of his house.

Cast

• Gabino Diego as Manuel^[1]
• Leonor Watling as Carmen^[2]
• Adriana Ozores as Flora^[2]
• Luis Cuenca as Melquíades^[2]
• Héctor Colomé as Lucas^[3]
• Ramón Agirre as Gerardo^[2]
• Aten Soria as Filo^[2]
• Javier Bódalo [es] as Pepito^[4]
• Juan José Otegui as Profesor Miralles^[2]
• José María Pou as Heliodoro^[3]
• Txema Blasco as Cuñado del profesor^[2]
• Ramón Langa^[5]

Release

The film was theatrically released in Spain on 18 December 1998.^[2] It was also entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver St. George.^[6]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
1999	13th Goya Awards	Best Actress	Leonor Watling	Nominated	[7]
		Best Actor	Gabino Diego	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Adriana Ozores	Won
		Best Costume Design	Javier Artiñano	Nominated
		Production Supervision	Mikel Nieto	Nominated
		Best Special Effects	Juan Ramón Molina, Alfonso Nieto	Nominated

See also

• List of Spanish films of 1998

References

1. Caparrós Lera, José María (2005). La Pantalla Popular. El cine español durante el Gobierno de la derecha (1996-2003). Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 115. ISBN 978-84-460-2414-9.
2. Caparrós Lera 2005, p. 115.
3. Cueto Asín 2018, p. 200.
4. Cueto Asín, Elena (2018). "La hora de los valientes (A Time for Defiance) (1998)". In Jimenez Murguía, Salvador; Pinar, Alex (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 200. ISBN 9781442271333.
5. "La hora de los valientes". Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
6. "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
7. "La hora de los valientes". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 17 June 2022.

External links

• La hora de los valientes at IMDb