Etiqueta: Real facts
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I Stopped Uttering Your Name: The Forbidden Life of Carmen Díez de Rivera (Dejé de pronunciar tu nombre: La vida prohibida de Carmen Díez de Rivera)
The muse of the Spanish transition to democracy. The beautiful Carmen Díez de Rivera was a cultured and intelligent woman like few others. Nicknamed "the muse of the Spanish Transition to democracy" by Francisco Umbral, she was the illegitimate daughter of the politician Serrano Suñer and the aristocrat Sonsoles de Icaza, a…
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The Desert and it’s Seed (El desierto y su semilla) (Film)
What does the skin hide? A cab ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from the acid thrown at her by her ex-husband while they were signing the divorce papers. Mario, her 22-year-old son, tries to wipe the acid off Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a failed attempt…
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Faster than Life (Más rápida que la vida) (TV Series / Film)
The incredible story of the fastest girl in the world. Dorothy Levitt: The first English woman race car driver and a pioneer of feminism. This is her fascinating life, that of a woman ahead of her time who broke down all prejudices. London, 1903. Dorothy is all over the front pages of English newspapers after…
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The Chauffeur’s Son (El hijo del chófer) (Film/ TV Series)
Arrogant, aggressive, unscrupulous, resentful, manipulative, narcissistic and cynical… Josep Quintà was able to stay afloat during the postwar period thanks to his car. He was one of the few who had one and thanks to it he was able to move around his native Figueres region working as a chauffeur. That's how he…
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The Last Queen (La última reina)
Is a queen born or made? Sophia of Greece and Hanover is the last queen consort of royal blood in Europe. Great-granddaughter, granddaughter, daughter, wife and mother of kings, she is related to all current European royal houses. The girl who grew up between the palace of Tatoi and the German boarding school…
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The Brotherhood of Evil (La hermandad del mal)
The Dismemberer of Majadahonda. Two women disappeared five years apart. They do not know each other and have never seen each other; Liria was born in Salamanca (Spain) and Adriana in Buenos Aires. The only thing that unites them is the house in Majadahonda (city on the outskirts of Madrid) where they both…
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The Anatomist (El anatomista) (Film)
Women carry between their legs the keys to heaven and hell. “What every man once dreamed of: the magic key that opens women's hearts, the secret that governs the mysterious desire of female love…” Mateo Colon, an anatomist during the Renaissance, falls prey to an obsession. He falls in love with Mona Sofia, an…
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The Head of Spies (El jefe de los espías)
Hidden for decades, Manglano's files finally see the light. Spanish General Maglano, the most informed man in the country, the creator of modern intelligence and the first director of a Western secret service to enter the KGB headquarters in Moscow… as a guest. His children reveal his archives for the first time so…
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Sara Montiel
The diva from Spanish La Mancha who conquered Hollywood and the Americas. Sara Montiel was one of the great divas of cinema and music, not only in Spain, but also in Hollywood and Latin America. From a very young age she stood out for her beauty, but it was her talent and her…
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Carmen of Mairena (Carmen de Mairena)
An original 6-episode Podcast-Audioseries published by Storytel The story of Spain’s most famous lips. This is the story of a woman who wanted to be who she was: an icon in pop culture and a reference in the struggle for historical justice and visibility for the trans community. Miguel de Mairena was born in…
