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Directed by | Fernando Trueba |
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Written by | Fernando Trueba |
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Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
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Country | Spain |
Language | Spanish English |
The Queen of Spain (Spanish: La reina de España) is a 2016 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Fernando Trueba. Starring Penélope Cruz, the movie is a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams, also starring Cruz and set during the Spanish Civil War. It has been selected to be shown in the Berlinale Special section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
Nearly twenty years after the events of The Girl of Your Dreams, in the 1950s, Macarena Granada, who has become a Hollywood star, returns to Spain to film a blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile.