The Lost City | |
Director: | Margarita Alexandre Rafael María Torrecilla |
Starring: | Cosetta Greco Fausto Tozzi María Dolores Pradera |
Music: | Miguel Asins Arbó |
Cinematography: | Renato Del Frate |
Editing: | Mercedes Alonso |
Studio: | Pico Films Nervión Films |
Distributor: | Hispano Foxfilms |
Runtime: | 83 minutes |
Country: | Italy Spain |
The Lost City (Spanish:La ciudad perdida or Terrorists in Madrid, Italian:Terroristi a Madrid) is a 1955 Italian-Spanish drama film directed by Margarita Alexandre and Rafael María Torrecilla and starring Cosetta Greco, Fausto Tozzi and María Dolores Pradera.[1] It is an adaptation of La ciudad perdida (1953) by Spanish author Mercedes Formica.
The film's sets were designed by Enrique Alarcón.
Rafael, an ex-exiled republican of the Spanish Civil War, returns to his native city after the years and in the company of his fellow maquis (members of the Resistance) with the mission of carrying out an armed action against Franco's regime. But the mission fails and, in his desperate attempt to escape, Rafael kidnaps a beautiful high class woman.