Etiqueta: Real facts
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The Children of Morelia (Los niños de Morelia) – TV Series Original Project
During the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Republic accepted the offer of the Mexican authorities to take in a big number of children to take them away from the horrors of war. This is how Antonia, a Spanish school teacher who saw her students die in a bombing by the Nationalist faction,…
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You Know Nothing About Me (No sabes nada de mí)
Who are the Spanish female spies? Their identities were never revealed, but their work was key to solving some of the juiciest and darkest cases of the Spanish 20th century. From spies involved in cases of ETA (Basque armed separatist organization) to those more recent ones who have investigated Jihadism in Spain, Cernuda ventures…
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The defenses (Las defensas)
One case in three billion. One case in three billion. A novel based in the incredible true story of a doctor who suffered from the illness that he was investigating, and who was always sure of having received the wrong diagnosis. Gabi Martínez rebuilds the true story of doctor Escudero, a neurologist who suffered…
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Black King (Rey Negro)
The indigent king. Rey negro (Black King) is based on a true story that took place in 1995: the exile of King Kigali V of Rwanda to avoid his assassination, and his following bitter adventures in Western society. Kigali, dethroned and thrown into poverty, does not stop behaving with the dignity that corresponds to a…
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Women (Mujeres)
The rebellious Mexican women who changed the curse of History. In the 1970s, in front of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, an old woman sells the tourists ancient photos: photographies of women. A young poet realises the seller is Nahui Oli, a Mexican artist, writer, pianist and model who used to shine…
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The Ones in Saint Patrick’s Batallion (Los del San Patricio)
The story of the men whose morality made them move to the opponent side. The real story of John Riley and his colleagues, the irishmen who fought in 1846 within the side of the Americans during the Mexican-American War. They, who had escaped from hunger and the oppression in Ireland, could not remain submissive in…
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Desert Blood (Sangre en el desierto)
There are dead girls who do not make any noise… Ivon Villa is a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles who returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby boy from Cecilia, a Mexican maquiladora living across the border in Juarez. Cecilia is found dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of…
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Monsters (Monstruos)
They were tortured before they were even born. This is the story of the Thalidomide scandal, a drug consumed by dozens of pregnant women to alleviate morning sickness and nausea. Because of this, dozens of children were born with deformities that, in some cases, caused their death. It is estimated that there were 3000 victims…
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Bad Leaf (Mala Hoja)
An introspective look of 19th century Cuba. In February 1874, two Spanish businessmen, a tobacco grower and a sugar farmer, meet at a restaurant in Havana, where they start a conversation while they smoke a cigar. On that dialogue, both characters tell why they abandoned Spain and how they managed to make…
