The Crime of Cuenca
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A grim historical drama about judicial corruption and state violence in rural Spain, built on the true story of two men falsely accused and tortured by a system designed to protect the powerful.
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.
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