Winner of six Ariel Awards (Mexico's Oscars), Miroslava is about a woman whose life was so much larger than life she had to be a movie star. Considered one of the most beautiful actresses in Mexican cinema history, Miroslava acted in about two dozen films before committing suicide in 1955 at the age of 25. She is best known internationally for her role as Lavinia in Buñuel's The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, but locally Miroslava is also remembered for a real life of love, tragedy, and heartbreak that rivals any onscreen heroine: her family's flight from occupied Czechoslovakia, a grandmother's death at the hands of the Nazis, and especially her love affair with the Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, infamous Lothario to the stars, including Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner. A valentine to a nearly forgotten actress, Miroslava is a fitting, fictionalized tribute to Mexico's Golden Age of film, and to the glamour of cinema itself.