A dead ringer for your grandfather's lost love just walked into the bullring—now two brothers are doomed.
While watching on television a bullfight where his son Luis acts, the matador Rafael Lucena dies of a heart attack upon discovering Virginia in the bullring, a woman who looks like Soledad. Soledad was his father ‘s, Manuel Lucena, great love. Both Luis and his brother Alejandro meet the singer Virginia and fall in love with her but when Luis suffers serious goring, he begins to think that Virginia brings bad luck.
Acting
Carmen Sevilla's dual role dazzles—two women, one fatal face.
Cinematography
Bullring scenes pulse with claustrophobic grandeur.
Score
Flamenco strings scream where dialogue whispers.
Director
Rafael Gil
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rafael Gil directed over 70 films; this late-career melodrama was pure autopilot passion.
1970s Spanish cinema used bullfighting as national metaphor—here it's literally a family tomb.
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