Directed by Sergio Dow and with excellent music by Spanish composer Roque Baños, the film La piel del tambor, an adaptation of the book of the same name by writer Arturo Pérez Reverte, has been released.
With an all-star cast led by Richard Armitage and Amaia Salamanca, accompanied by Rodolfo Sancho, Fionnula Flanagan, Paul Freeman, Paul Guilfoyle and Alicia Borrachero, the film is set in Vatican City in 1995. A computer hacker breaks into the Pope’s personal computer, leaving him a message in which he claims that the Church of Our Lady of Tears, located in the city of Seville, kills to defend itself. Intrigued, the Holy Father orders an investigation into the matter. Monsignor Spada (Paul Guilfoyle) assigns the mission to his best agent, the priest Quart (Richard Armitage), who has long experience in the dark affairs of the Holy See. Meanwhile, in Seville, the aristocratic Macarena Bruner (Amaia Salamanca), a beautiful divorcee who owns the rights to the land on which the church stands, scandalises the city with her inappropriate love affairs with a flamenco dancer, while she flirts around Seville and is a leading member of a group resisting demolition of the church.
