Francisco de Miranda

ETHAL, in cooperation with the Spanish Embassy in Cyprus, organizes a three-day Ibero-American Film Festival from Thursday 18 March until Saturday 20 March 2010.

The story of a revolutionary Venezuelan who lived in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Francisco de Miranda was one of the first revolutionaries in the country. Although his own plans for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed, he is regarded as a forerunner of Simón Bolívar, who during the Spanish American wars of independence successfully liberated a vast portion of South America. Miranda led a romantic and adventurous life. An idealist, he developed a visionary plan to liberate and unify all of Spanish America but his own military initiatives on behalf of an independent Spanish America failed in 1812. He was handed over to his enemies and four years later, in 1816, died in a Spanish prison. Within fourteen years of his death, however, most of Spanish America was independent.

Cast:
Luis Fernández (Francisco de Miranda)
Ralph Kinnard (Pitt)
Anthony Lo Russo (Prócer)

Director: Diego Rísquez
Writer: Leonardo Padrón
Runtime: 101 min
Genre: History
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Production Year: 2006