Soledad Miranda

Here are a synopsis, pictures, and video from Canción de cuna. For more details about this movie, click here. If you have any pictures from this movie that I don't have, please contact me!

At a Castilian convent around the end of the 19th century, a community of ordained nuns honors their Mother Superior with poetry. Then the local doctor diagnoses her with a terminal illness. A few days later a nun finds an abandoned baby girl at the doors of the convent. The doctor, despite being single, offers to adopt the baby legally and then to put her in the convent as a pupil. Mother Superior agrees and little Teresa, full of life and a joy to the community, is admitted to the congregation. The appeareance of the baby will alter the harmony between the nuns, because they will feel in themselves something which they have renounced, but which is naturally present: a maternal instinct. When Teresa grows up she does not feel the call of the religious vocation and she falls in love with a young man. He nearly breaks her heart but they decide to marry. He is going to leave for America for work, which will entail for her mothers an irrecoverable loss in their lives when she leaves.

This clip features some of Soledad's scenes from Canción de cuna. She plays Teresa and also performs several songs; click here and here to see those videos. (To watch the above video in high quality, double-click the video; on the new page, click "HQ" at the bottom right of the video screen.) This movie can be ordered in the store.

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