Galicia makes a perfect crime sceneDon’t talk on TV. After titles like ‘Rapa’, ‘The mess you left behind’ or ‘The taste of margaritas’, Amazon Prime Video ‘A private affair’ exploits the richness of Galician scenesthis is the new spanish series coming, friday 16 september with an empowered woman as the protagonist. Marina Quiroga (Aura Garrido), a young woman from a family, is determined to catch a murderer. Spain in the mid 1940s. His butler (Jean Reno) will be her greatest ally, and also Jiminy Cricket, in this story that mixes ‘suspense’, action, adventure and comedy in equal proportions without forgetting the feminist righteousness.
Something that was completely vetoed by women at the time, as the protagonist is a brave young upper-class descendant of a long police saga whose dream was to enter the force. “a very free character and a profession beyond what her environment and society told her to do,” explains Garrido. “She was an uncommon type of woman at the time, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. There are many examples throughout history. women who defy social norms“, the actress emphasizes.
Struggle to go your own way confronting gender bias That’s something creator Teresa Fernández-Valdés has pointed out to be very “up-to-date”, even though the story takes place decades ago. “It’s not a period drama for my mom or grandma, but girls will know what we’re talking about because there are so many elements and challenges. [para la mujer] they’re still there”, adds he and his wife, co-founder of the prolific production company Bambú (‘Las Chicas del Cable’, ‘Velvet’, Fariña’…) that managed to seal an international deal here. star.
“It wasn’t hard to convince him. But The first thing he said was: where vigo?“, Fernández Valdés describes the Spanish-French actor’s difficulty in finding the city where most of the shooting was concentrated on the map.
prostitute murders
The wall that Marina hits during her dedication to the police profession does not prevent her from intervening in the investigation of a long-time female serial killer, whom agents have yet to escape. glove. The victims were prostitutes and their bodies were marked With a picture of a lily, a symbol of purity, immediately after death by the criminal.
The story drinks from the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie and even the Jack the Ripper murders, flavoring them with lots of action sequences, chases, adventure and comedy drops. It’s a kind of Cluedo game that makes the audience suspicious throughout all eight episodes of the characters.
A game with them The actors themselves, who did not know who the murderer was during filming (except for the interpreter who plays this role). “It’s well thought out, because if you know from the start that something like this will condition you,” says Ángela Molina, who plays the protagonist’s mother, a widower determined to find her a husband and keep her out of danger. The investigation involves a murder.
No trace of Francoism
Something that she conflicts with her other son is Marina’s biggest obstacle when it comes to conducting her investigation outside of the police. Mainly because his brother is the commissioner handling the case. “He’s a domineering person who doesn’t have the ability to communicate in the police station and in the family,” explains actor Pablo Molinero, who plays him. The line-up, like Gorka Otxoa, Álex García, and Tito Valverde, who were once members of the police force, is completed in the early years of Francoism, when there was no female presence.
However, the series does not talk about dictatorship. “Make a series of fun and adventures and Franc it wasn’t very sexy…” justifies the creator. “We had to create our own universe, just like Tintin had when he went to the Congo or to Indiana Jones’s in Berlin, which I don’t think is the case,” adds David Pinillos, “a special director of the affair.