The Lost City (, or Terrorists in 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.Bentley p.124 It is an adaptation of La ciudad perdida (1953) by Spanish author Mercedes Formica.
The film's sets were designed by Enrique Alarcón.
Plot 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.
Cast Cosetta Greco as María Fausto Tozzi as Rafael María Dolores Pradera as Luisa Félix Dafauce as Comisario Nani Fernández as Sole Manolo Morán as Eliseo Santiago Rivero as Il Capo Alessandro Fersen as Padre de Rafael Emma Baron as Madre de Rafael
References
Bibliography Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
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