With more time to rummage, archivists at Spain’s National Film Archive were able to finally watch some old films that had been ignored for decades. One film rewrites a bit of Spanish film history. As Lucia Benavides reports, they discovered what they now believe to be the first talking film ever directed by a Spanish female director.
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