El Santo de la Espada (in English, The Saint of the Sword) is a 1970 Argentine historical epic film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and starring Alfredo Alcón.
It was written by Beatriz Guido and Luis Pico Estrada, based on the eponymous novel by Ricardo Rojas.
[1] The story relates the life and career of José de San Martín during the South American wars of independence.
His relation with Remedios de Escalada receives an important coverage, but with an important fact left unattended: after the emancipation of Chile and Peru, San Martín resigns to his powers in Peru after his meeting with Simon Bolivar, in the Guayaquil conference; he returns to Mendoza, upon receiving a letter informing him of the grave illness of Remedios.
A few months later, a group of revisionists created a documental movie about San Martín, in an effort to make clear some events the film narrated.