Subgénero: Biography
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Roses from Stalin (Las rosas de Stalin)
My name is Svetlana Alliluyeva. I was born on February 28, 1926. My father died in 1953. His name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s favorite, his only daughter had a rough awakening at 16 years old. She discovered her mother had died of suicide, not natural causes, and her father was a ruthless dictator. Her first…
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The Intruder (La intrusa)
An intimate portrait of Dalí’s muse. Gala Dalí was a woman who wished to be secretive. Although the men with whom she shared her life were to become so famous they would eventually become universal figures, she decided to remain in the background, to the extent that her image became that of a cold,…
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For the Love of Art (Por amor al arte)
The perfect crime does exist. He committed it. Juan Manuel Candela Sapieha, also known as ‘El Sapo’, is a Spanish criminal known for his skills in concealment and disguise. For the Love of Art is the true story of the infamous crime which put this man in the spotlight: the robbery of more than…
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The Adventures of Joselito: The Little Nightingale (Las aventuras de Joselito: El pequeño ruiseñor)
The most important child star of Spanish music and cinema. José Jiménez Fernández, known to the public as Joselito or “The boy with the golden voice” ("El niño de la voz de oro"), was the young prodigy of Spanish music and cinema in the mid-20th century. Raised in a humble family during the…
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Love Stories in War Fields (Historias de amor en campos de guerra)
Is love stronger than war? The stories of women who share a common denominator: the same war. Six extraordinary women who, for various reasons, ended up being victims of an armed conflict from which they thought they could never escape, and who, in the midst of this drama, lived intense and memorable love stories.…
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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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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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Elvira’s Secrets (Los secretos de Elvira)
The spy who changed the course of D-Day. Elvira Chaudoir, an upper-class Peruvian who settled in Paris at the outbreak of World War II, is an intelligent, attractive, elegant, wealthy, trilingual, bisexual young woman. A gambling and nightlife addict, she was fiercely independent and very classy… Elvira was always different from the rest. So…
