Cast
Victoria Abril, here in her ninth collaboration with Vicente Aranda, was thought of from the beginning for the role of Trini, the virginal maid, while Concha Velasco was offered the role of Luisa. When Velasco declined, Aranda deemed Victoria was mature enough to play Luisa and proposed her to switch roles and take the one of the widow. She was reluctant, saying that she saw herself more as Trini, the sacrifice maid rather than the wicked widow. Victoria Abril was pregnant, by the time she gave birth and was ready to start the film she had had a change of heart and accepted to be Luisa.
The role of Trini fell on Maribel Verdú, a young actress who had made her film debut with Aranda in El Crimen del Capitán Sánchez (Captain Sánchez's crime) in 1984, as younger sister of Victoria Abril who was the leading actress of that film. Maribel Verdú, whose artistic culmen maybe is Ricardo Franco's 1997 La Buena Estrella is better known internationally for her roles in Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también and in Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth.
At first, Aranda thought about Antonio Banderas as Paco, but the actor had already undertaken Arne Glimcher's The Mambo Kings, and the role was assigned to Jorge Sanz. He is perhaps best known to English-speaking audiences playing the roles of the young soldier who falls in love with four sisters in Belle Époque (film) the Oscar winner as a foreign film in 1993. Sanz had won a Goya Award as best actor for Aranda’s Si te dicen que Caí, a film which starred Victoria Abril. The three lead actors of Amantes had been together before in Vicente Aranda’s previous project, Los Jinetes del Alba, in another love triangle.
- Victoria Abril - Luisa
- Jorge Sanz - Paco
- Maribel Verdú - Trini
- Enrique Cerro - commandant
- Mabel Escaño - commandant’s wife
- Alicia Agut -Trini’s mother
- Jose Cerro - Minuta
- Gabriel Latorre - Gordo
- Saturnino Garcia - Pueblerino
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