Title: Fray Escoba
Year: 1961
Duration: 101 min.
Country: Spain
Director: Ramón Torrado
Screenplay: Ramón Torrado (Story: Jaime García Herranz)
Music: Manuel Parada
Photography: Ricardo Torres (B&W)
Cast: Ren Muoz, Esther Zulema, Mariano Azaa, Barta Barri, Jos Bdalo, Xan das Bolas, Joaqun Burgos, Juan Calvo, Juan Cazalilla, Flix Dafauce, Rodolfo del Campo, Miguel Del Castillo, Luis Domnguez Luna
Producer: Copercines
Genre: Religious biographical drama
Synopsis: In Lima at the end of the 16th century lives Martn with his mother and sister. Martín is a mulatto boy with a noble and pure heart who only lives to do and wish others good (even those who denigrate and mistreat him), that is the concept of happiness for Martín who idolizes his hero, Jesus Christ.
Martín’s life will change when he is claimed along with his sister by his father, a powerful Spanish hidalgo who will take care of his education. Years will pass and Martn, already formed, will return to his mother, Martn has received a good and wealthy education, but Martn continues with his ideal of giving everything for and for others, this will lead him to enter the Dominican convent where and rejecting his father’s mighty fortune he will begin at the lowest echelon, that is, sweeping the ground.
But for Martin this is pure happiness and from that moment he will turn the broom into a symbol and at the same time his fame will grow for his good deeds…
Saint Martin de Porres
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