Tirante the knight is as committed to fighting the Turks in Constantinople as he is to relieving Carmesina, the heiress to the Byzantine Empire, of her virginity. Based on the popular, baroque, fifteenth century chevalier story Tirant lo Blanc is, the seminal Catalan novel that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra cites as a profound influence on the realization of Don Quixote de La Mancha.
Vicente Aranda’s The Maiden’s Conspiracy is a lavish, risqué medieval adventure that combines the ambitious scope of epic, battlefield encounters with the intimacy and situational satire of sexual politics. Centering on the often comical (mis)adventures of a handsome, brave, and dutiful knight from humble origins named Tirante el Blanco (Caspar Zafer) who seeks to curry increasing favor from the benevolent, ailing Byzantine king (Giancarlo Giannini), initially through his assumed role as military strategist to defend the kingdom and stave off the inevitable incursion into Constantinople by the Turks.
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Carmesina (Esther Nubiola), the stern and repressed widow (Victoria Abril) as the Viuda Reposada, a hopeless romantic (Leonor Watling) named Placer De Mi Vida, a trusted confidante named Estefanía (Ingrid Rubio) who has fallen for Tirante’s roguish lieutenant Diafebus (Charlie Cox), a dutiful servant named Eliseo (Rebecca Cobos), and a royal page named Hipólito (Sid Mitchell) whose youth and sensitivity has attracted the attention of the neglected queen (Jane Asher) and the Grand Turk (Rafael Amargo) with his insatiable lust for conquest are the other protagonists of this movie.
Cast: Jane Asher, Victoria Abril, Esther Nubiola, Ingrid Rubio, Leonor Watling
