| Riders of the Dawn | |
| Director: | Vicente Aranda |
| Producer: | José Luis Tafur RTVE |
| Starring: | Victoria Abril Jorge Sanz Maribel Verdú |
| Music: | José Nieto |
| Cinematography: | Juan Amorós |
| Editing: | Teresa Font |
| Distributor: | RTVE |
| Runtime: | 250 minutes (five episodes) |
| Country: | Spain |
| Language: | Spanish |
Riders of the Dawn (Spanish; Castilian: Los Jinetes del Alba) is a 1990 Spanish film, written and directed by Vicente Aranda, an adaptation of a novel by Jesús Fernández Santos. It stars Victoria Abril and Jorge Sanz.
Made as five-episode television miniseries for Televisión Española, it premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as two-part feature film. The miniseries was broadcast on La Primera Cadena of Televisión Española in 1991.
The plot follows the life of Marian, a young woman whose greatest ambition is to be the owner of the spa resort, where she works. The action is set in Las Caldas, a small town in Asturias, where the lives of its inhabitants are forever changed by the arrival of the Asturian revolution of 1934 and the Spanish Civil War.