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| | Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Nominated for 12 Goya Awards in its native Spain, Vicente Aranda's feminist biography chronicles the long life and short reign of Queen Juana of Castile (1479-1555), whom history remembers as Joan the Mad. |
 | | 1496: Princess Joan (Pilar Lopez de Ayala), 17, daughter of King Ferdinand (Hector Colome) and Queen Isabella of Castile (Susy Sanchez), Christopher Columbus' patron, is sent to Flanders to make a political marriage to Hapsburg heir Philip the Fair (Daniele Liotti) of Burgundy. |
 | | Following the successive deaths of brother, elder sister and mother, Juana becomes Queen of Castile and returns to Spain, where Philip attempts to distance himself from his volatile wife and takes a new mistress, opportunistic Moorish belly dancer Aixa (Manuela Arcuri), secretly installing her among Juana's ladies in waiting. |
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