A film directed by a Aragon In just two days it has already conquered the users Amazon Prime platform since it is set as the most watched in Spain on December 7 (also in Angola and Benin) and the tenth worldwide. It is about ‘The Red Virgin’from Zaragoza Paula Ortiz which, starring Najwa Nimri, Axia Villagrán and Alba Planas, has exploded after a fruitful commercial life in theaters.
The true story that Paula Ortiz revives in ‘The Red Virgin’ is that of Hildegart Rodriguez, Aurora’s “project” daughter. At two he was reading, at four he was playing the piano, at ten he had finished high school and spoke several languages, and at fifteen he was already writing for El Socialista and attending conferences. His mother, influenced by eugenics, He raised her to be a prodigy.but when Hildegart tried to live on her own, Aurora shot her to death in 1933. This tragic event made her a symbol of the times.
Favorite in the awards
We must not forget, moreover, that in the absence of recognition of Goya’s nominations, ‘The Red Virgin’ is one of the big favorites at the Feroz Awards as it has racked up six nominations, including best drama film, director and screenplay.
In the cinema, the film has has collected 1,305,137 euros as it attracted a total of 219,393 viewers, which places it in the top-20 Spanish films released in 2024.
About the film, Paula Ortiz told this newspaper: “Aurora’s killing of her daughter is not an explosion of passion, she is not crazy and she is not a psychopath, it is the story of a fanatic, a political story because she kills in the name. of an ideological project, in the name of ideas. Fanaticism is ideological, whether religious or political, it is when the ideas are above the free conscience of the human being. and knowing that you have before you a person with full consciousness and freedom. When you forget that, those ideas can become violent gestures and this has been seen in recent history and they are the great scars of contemporary history of which we are grandchildren”.