Uncertain Glory

Uncertain Glory

2017 · 115 min · ★ 5.4 · Drama

Front of Aragon, 1937. Lluís, a young republican officer destined for a temporarily dormant position, meets an enigmatic widow of whom she falls in love, Carlana, who manages to fool him to falsify a Document that makes it the lady of the region. The best friend of Lluís, the Soleràs, a degraded officer, discovers the fraud and, in exchange for not exposing him, he demands that he move away from the bombings of Barcelona his son and his wife, from whom he is Secretly in love When Trini arrives at the town, it does not take long to discover the betrayal of Lluís and establishes between them two a "state of war" that will make all moral bases stagger.

Directed by Agustí Villaronga · Written by Coral Cruz

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Núria Prims Carlana
Marcel Borràs Lluis de Brocà
Oriol Pla Juli Soleras
Bruna Cusí Trini Milmany
Terele Pávez Molinera
Luisa Gavasa Olegaria
Juan Diego Cagorcio
Fernando Esteso Moliner
David Bagés Capità Picó
Jordi Coromina Doctor
Jordi Ydalga Fermín
Daniel Cañero Ramonet

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