Nominated for 12 Goya Awards in its native Spain, Vicente Aranda's feminist biography chronicles the long life and short reign of Queen Juana of Castile (1479-1555), whom history remembers as Joan the Mad.
1496: Princess Joan (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), 17, daughter of King Ferdinand (Hector Colome) and Queen Isabella of Castile (Susy Sanchez), Christopher Columbus' patron, is sent to Flanders to make a political marriage to Hapsburg heir Philip the Fair (Daniele Liotti) of Burgundy. She leaves behind her beloved mother and siblings, as well as childhood sweetheart Alvaro de Estuniga (Eloy Azorin), now an officer in the Spanish army. Juana blossoms in the hedonistic Bru...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
117 mins