Marianela

1972
1h 45m

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Marianela (or La Nela, as people call her) is a poor orphan girl, savage and deformed, who lives in a small village in the Asturian mining basin. Her best friend is Pablo, a blind young man ... Read allMarianela (or La Nela, as people call her) is a poor orphan girl, savage and deformed, who lives in a small village in the Asturian mining basin. Her best friend is Pablo, a blind young man from a wealthy family with whom she walks the steep mountains and who is in love with her.Marianela (or La Nela, as people call her) is a poor orphan girl, savage and deformed, who lives in a small village in the Asturian mining basin. Her best friend is Pablo, a blind young man from a wealthy family with whom she walks the steep mountains and who is in love with her.

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6.1/10

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A sad, poorly produced joke adaptation of a great novel.

The movie, Marianela is wonderful-if you have never read the novel. If you have read Galdos' masterwork, then viewing the movie with either cause you great fits of mocking laughter, or a burning nausea.

The screenwriter took the novel and redid the entire storyline. Characters are added that never existed in the original work (Ferdacho el borracho?!!). False back-stories are created to explain la 'Nela's physical maladies and supposed alcoholism. Worst of all, the scene sequences are shot entirely out of any logical order in relation to the novel. The entire theme of the novel is buried in the movie to be almost unintelligible-as are the charactarizations of the protagonists. Yuck! Great gaps exist in the movie that never existed in Galdos' writings.

In summation-avoid this movie...except perhaps as a means of comparing good literature vs. bad screen writing.