Natalia Verbeke

A wavering bride, a stranger, an earnest groom: love triangle? Think again. The filmmaker adds many twists and turns to shape this romantic thriller.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, whom History knows as El Cid Campeador, is an essential figure to understand the Middle Ages. His legend has endured throughout the centuries to become a myth. In this documentary we will discover his character as a military leader, a mercenary or a undefeated hero in hundred battles, but also as the man, with his virtues but also with his defects.