Etiqueta: Power fight
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The Phantom of the British Invasion (El fantasma de las invasiones inglesas)
The story of the British occupation told by the ghost of a young man of the time. The ghost of Julián Expósito tells the story of his life to a boy of today, a story that takes place in Buenos Aires between 1806 and 1807. This was precisely a moment of quite agitated political…
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The Legend of La Peregrina (La leyenda de la Peregrina)
The most legendary jewel in all of history. The story begins two days after Richard Burton gives Elizabeth Taylor La Peregrina pearl. Taylor investigates said jewel and comes to find out about its legendary voyage throughout the lives of the world´s most emblematic characters of the last 500 years of history. In 1579,…
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Morgan Papers: Confessions of an Unfaithful Employee (Morgan Papers: Confesiones de un empleado infiel)
The first major case of evasion and money laundering in Argentina is uncovered. Hernán Arbizu, a senior executive of JP Morgan bank, commits a huge scam that comes to light in 2008. In order to avoid extradition to the U.S., he incriminates himself. After confessing to having been involved in eight unlawful money transfers…
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The Austrians Saga (Saga Los Austrias)
The Eagle´s Flight | Time is in your hands Three possible successors to the crown… one single throne. It is the year 1504. The throne of Castile will remain vacant after the death of Isabella the Catholic and its possible successors, hungry for power, will do anything and everything to have it. Juana de…
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Spring for Madrid (Primavera para Madrid)
A story of self-interests and corruption that proves that for every saint there is an infinite legion of demons. The collapse of the oligarchic elite in Madrid, a seemingly untouchable group within the Spanish society, caused a ruckus. In this story, the lives of these corrupt and elitist characters are portrayed – with an…
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Signed with a Tissue Paper (Firmado con un klínex)
From reality to fiction, from peacefulness to violence. A detective with the pseudonym ¨Lefty¨ investigates the incomprehensible wave of female suicides, where the wives of artists and politicians alike are among the victims of this deadly epidemic. An Italian and a French man argue the night before their national soccer teams pay for the world…
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Front Page (Primera página)
The birth of a great period in the most turbulent years of the Spanish 20th century. Front Page are Juan Luis Cebrián’s memoirs, the first managing director and co-founder of El País newspaper. It is also the detailed story of the turbulent and bloody years that took Spain from a dictatorship into democracy. Born in…
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Belladonna Academy (Academia Belladonna)
The assassins’ academy. London, 1930s. Young Duncan Dix receives a letter from the past with a key. The letter is his admittance in the Belladonna Academy, a very important clandestine school for murderers. In the academy, he will learn different assassination tactics to avenge his parents’ death. Along with him, 7 other pupils are admitted…
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Aramburu
The crime that divided a country. The origin of Montoneros 29th May 1970, Buenos Aires, plain daylight. A group of men in their twenties dressed in army uniforms show up at the house of the Argentinian President, Mr. Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. One of them, Fernando Abal Medina, tells the President: “General, you are coming with…
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Saga President by Surprise (Saga Presidenta por sorpresa)
President by Surprise | Suddenly Disobedient She wanted to be class delegate but became president of the nation. Marta Chacras is 13 years old and she was never interested in politics. However, after a quarrel with her biggest enemy and classmate, Héctor Rufián junior, the son of the nation’s president – and although she…
