El Crimen De Cuenca [DVD]

1980 / Duration 92 min. / Directed by Pilar Miró / Cast Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, Fernando Rey, Daniel Dicenta, José Manuel Cervino, Mary Carrillo, Assumpta Serna, Nicolás Dueñas, Guillermo Montesinos // Synopsis: In 1913, Gregorio Valero Contreras and León Sánchez Gascón, friends and residents of Osa de La Vega (Cuenca) are arrested as perpetrators of the death of José María Grimaldos López, pastor by trade and companion of the above. The people accuse them, even Gregorio's wife gathers evidence against them. The two men confess to the crime after being subjected to torture. They were tried in 1918 in the Provincial Court of Cuenca which, after modifying the request for capital punishment, sentenced them to eighteen years in prison...