SANMAO: LA NOVIA DEL DESIERTO

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN · 2020
LANGUAGE: SPANISH, MANDARIN, ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
BLACK & WHITE · 86 MIN. 

In the 1970s, Chinese writer and traveller Sanmao lived a passionate love story with Spanish diver José María Quero. They travelled to the Spanish Sahara where Sanmao captured her daily experiences in the book Tales of the Sahara, a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao became an icon of independent womanhood and the protagonist of a life of legend, mixing love, adventure, literature and tragedy.