There Be Dragons

There Be Dragons is a 2011 Englishlanguage historical epic film written and directed by Roland Joff. It is a drama set during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s and features themes such as betrayal, love and hatred, forgiveness, friendship, and finding meaning in everyday life. The film was released onMay 2011. It includes the story of soldiers, a journalist, his father, and a real life priest, Josemara Escriv, the founder of Opus Dei who was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

Director Roland Joff said There Be Dragons is a story about people trying to find meaning about their lives. The epic film tells the story of a Spanish journalist, Robert, who is mending relations with his dying father, Manolo, who took part in the Spanish Civil War. The journalist discovers through his investigations that his father was a close childhood friend of Josemara Escriv, a candidate for sainthood, with whom he had a complicated relationship. Manolo became a soldier during the Spanish Civil War and became obsessed with a beautiful Hungarian revolutionary, Ildiko. She rejects him and gives herself to a brave militia leader Oriol. Manolo becomes jealous and takes a path of betrayal.The film includes the early life of Josemara Escriv, the controversial founder of Opus Dei. Escriv, who died in 1975, was canonized by John Paul II in 2002. Joff, who initially shied away from the project, was ultimately intrigued by the chance to dramatize the life of a modernday saint, particularly considering Escrivs liberating view that a path to God could be found in an ordinary life. ........

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