Mad Love (2001)

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Country: France, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Release: 2002-08-30
Director: Vicente Aranda
Writers: Vicente Aranda , Antonio Larreta , Manuel Tamayo y Baus
Language: Spanish
Stars: Pilar López de Ayala , Daniele Liotti , Rosana Pastor , Giuliano Gemma , Roberto Álvarez , Eloy Azorín , Guillermo Toledo , Susi Sánchez , Chema de Miguel , Andrés Lima
Runtime: 115 min
Awards: 14 wins & 12 nominations
AKA: Evig kärlek (Finland) , Безумие любви (Russian Federation) , Őrült Johanna (Hungary) , Mad Love (United Kingdom) , 광녀 조앤 (Korea) , Mad Love (South Africa) , Joana - A Louca (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Giovanna la pazza (Italy) , Juana la Loca (Spain) , Madness of Love (United States of America) , Juana La Loca (Singapore) , Madness of Joan (United States of America) , Juana la Loca , Juana - Çılgın aşk (Turkey) , Joanna Szalona (Poland) , Луда љубав (Serbia) , Хуана Лудата (Bulgaria) , Mad Love (United States of America) , Ikuinen rakkaus (Finland) , Locura de amor (Spain) , Joana, a Louca (Brazil)
Plot: Juana is married off by her pious parents, the Catholic kings Ferndinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, to ally Spain, united by their marriage, to the Burgundian and other Habsburg heritage of archduke Maximilian's son Philip. When they meet, it's love at first sight, for her all-consuming, for him one of many happy bed partnerships as she later discovers. Deaths in her family soon make Juana Isabella's heir, but Ferdinand suggests she inherited her grandmother's madness and supports Philip's ambition to rule instead, which becomes the stakes of political maneuvering in the Cortes (nobility-dominated parliament). Combined with Philip's incurable infidelity, which includes a Moorish whore-princess, multiple drama is inevitable, and worse follows.
IMDB:tt0270480