A Mexican children's choir walks the Camino de Santiago and accidentally adopts a mysterious widow with baggage. Pilgrimage? More like therapy on cobblestones.
This could be considered the inaugural film of the Jacobean fiction film. Its argument follows the adventures of a group of children of a Mexican Children's Choir, who travel as pilgrims to Compostela, coinciding with the Holy Year. On their journey, they meet a rich and elegant woman, with a sad and dark past, which will provide protection to them.
Acting
José Mojica brings genuine warmth as the priest-guide.
Production
On-location Camino footage in 1953 — basically vintage travel porn.
Director
Rafael J. Salvia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during an actual Holy Year (1954), making it essentially a feature-length time capsule of postwar Spanish Catholicism.
José Mojica was a former opera singer turned actor-priest in real life — method casting before it was cool.
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