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El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston. The film is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian knight and warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar , called "El Cid" (from the Arabic al-sidi , meaning "The Lord").
El Cid is portrayed by American actor Charlton Heston in a 1961 epic film of the same name [46] directed by Anthony Mann, where the character of Doña Ximena is portrayed by Italian actress Sophia Loren. [47] [48] In 2020, Amazon Prime Video premiered a Spanish TV series with Jaime Lorente starring as El Cid. [49]
According to the El Cid film souvenir program, written by Harold Lamb, Bronston first contemplated El Cid (1961) as a potential film project in 1958. [61] The film tells a fictionalized account of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar , a Castilian knight, whom the Moors called "El Cid"—which translates to the Lord—from the Arabic term "El Seid."
The company produced several epic films, the most notable of which are, John Paul Jones (1959), King of Kings (1961), El Cid (1961), 55 Days at Peking (1963) and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). The films were made in Spain in the company's newly created studios in Las Rozas, near Madrid.
El Cid (1961) – epic historical drama film based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" (from the Arabic al-sidi, meaning "The Lord") [44] Francis of Assisi (1961) – biographical drama film about the life of Francis of Assisi [45]
Heston campaigned for presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson in 1956, although he was unable to campaign for John F. Kennedy in 1960 because he was filming El Cid in Spain. [63] Reportedly, when a segregated Oklahoma movie theater was showing his movie El Cid for the first time in 1961, he joined a picket line outside the movie theater. [64]
The 1961 Hollywood film El Cid largely follows the narrative of the Chronicle and the poetic epics, adding to the character of the Infanta a spurned woman role scheming against the Cid, once she seems rejected by him; however it omits the story that Urraca and Rodrigo grew up as close companions in Zamora and there may be other omissions. And ...
El Cid, or Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, was a medieval Spanish hero. El Cid may also refer to: Cantar de mio Cid, a medieval Spanish epic poem; Le Cid, a 1636 tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille; Le Cid, an 1885 opera in four acts by Jules Massenet; El Cid, a 1961 film; El Cid, a Spanish historical action drama web television series