Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.
Stars: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas, Francisco Casares, Fermí Reixach
Crew: Carlos Saura (Director), Pedro del Rey (Editor), Koldo Vallés (Set Decoration), José Antonio Sánchez (Makeup Artist), Teo Escamilla (Director of Photography), Gerardo José Vega (Production Design)
Country: France, Spain
Language: Español
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Runtime: 93 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 23, 1989
IMDb: 5.7
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