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Thirteen Roses

13 Roses (Las 13 rosas) is a 2007 Spanish film directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro. It stars Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez and Marta Etura. The plot, based on a true story, follows the tragic fate of thirteen young women, fighting for their ideals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

The film is based on real-life events. It tells the storey of 13 young women who were sentenced to death by a military court for a crime they had not committed: an attack on a military official during the first years of Franco's dictatorship in which three people died. The women were already in gaol when the assault took place.

Arrested a month after the end of the Spanish Civil War, the women were sympathisers of the socialist Spanish Republic which was overthrown by the fascist Nationalist forces. They suffered harsh interrogations and were gaoled at Las Ventas in Madrid. The women, known as the 13 roses were executed at dawn on August 5, 1939.

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