The film stars Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina and Spanish ballet dancer Antonio, and features Léonide Massine.

The film functions as a travelogue around Spain with dance interludes, mainly set to the repeated theme of "The Honeymoon Song" by Mikis Theodorakis.

They are touring Spain in their open top Bentley for their honeymoon before going to live on the sheep station that Kit runs in Australia.

An American car races past them at high speed but it soon has to stop to change a burst tyre.

They are a fiery couple, always arguing and when Antonio goes down to a stream to wash up after changing the tyre, Rosita drives away without him.

After a delightful meal they retire to their room where Anna does her best to distract Kit from his book on Fertility and Animal Breeding.

When Anna makes some suggestions to help the pas de deux Antonio realises she is a dancer and at last discovers who she really is.

Kit and Anna travel south to see the painting "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz" by El Greco.

Cast notes: Music used in Luna de miel includes:[2] After his partnership with Emeric Pressburger ended, Michael Powell looked around for other projects and was enticed to Spain to make a film that, it was hoped, would do for flamenco and Spanish ballet what The Red Shoes had done for ballet.

He was already grooming himself for the part of the English baronet, Sir Stephen in The Story of O and he brought Anita Ekberg with him too.

"[5] At the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Luna de miel won the Technical Grand Prize.

[6][7] Ludmilla Tchérina liked the final ballet, Los Amantes de Teruel, so much that she incorporated it into her regular stage performances.