The Dark Night of the Soul
Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan fought to install reforms in the Carmelite Order. Like many another visionary, he was regarded as a heretic, and promptly subjected to the most appalling of tortures. Writer-director Saura manages to draw several parallels between the religious persecution of the 1700s and the political despotism of Fascist Spain.
Crew
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Gerardo José Vega
Production Design
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Andrés Vicente Gómez
Producer
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Carlos Saura
Director
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Carlos Saura
Screenplay
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Gerardo Vera
Art Direction
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José Antonio Sánchez
Makeup Artist
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Gilles Ortion
Sound
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Teo Escamilla
Director of Photography
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Carlos Saura Medrano
Assistant Director
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Koldo Vallés
Set Decoration
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Romana González
Makeup Artist
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Pedro del Rey
Editor
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Carlos Faruolo
Sound
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