There Be Dragons
Director: Roland Joffé
Genre: Biography, Epic, War film, Family Drama, Period piece, Drama
Year: 2011
Country: United States of America, Argentina, Spain
Language: English Language
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, Ana Torrent, Golshifteh Farahani, Dougray Scott, Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Unax Ugalde, Rodrigo Santoro, Geraldine Chaplin, Pablo Lapadula, Yaiza Guimaré, Rusty Lemorande, Jordi Mollà, Alejandro Casaseca, Alfonso Bassave
There Be Dragons is a 2011 English-language historical epic film written and directed by Roland Joffé. It is a drama set during the Spanish Civil War which features themes such as betrayal, love and hatred, forgiveness, friendship, and finding meaning in everyday life. The film was released on 6 May 2011. It includes the story of soldiers, a journalist, his father, and a real life priest, Josemaría Escrivá, later canonized as a recent Roman Catholic saint, the founder of Opus Dei.
The film stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Rodrigo Santoro, Derek Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin, Jordi Mollà, Golshifteh Farahani, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Unax Ugalde and Lily Cole.
Director Roland Joffé said There Be Dragons is "a story about people trying to find meaning about their lives." The epic film tells the story of a Spanish journalist, Robert, who is mending relations with his dying father, Manolo, who took part in the Spanish Civil War. The journalist discovers through his investigations that his father was a close childhood friend of Josemaría Escrivá, a candidate for sainthood, with whom he had a complicated relationship. Manolo became a soldier during the Spanish Civil War and became
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