Four bodies, two men and two women, appeared at the Los Galindos farmhouse, located in the Sevillian town of Paradas, on a hot July 22, 1975. The victims were farm workers and their wives. The case, which soon made the national media, became an enigma that even today, almost 50 years later, has not been fully resolved.
In those first hours of the investigation, suspicion remained regarding Manuel Zapata, foreman, whose wife Juana was one of those murdered, and the motive for the crime of passion was considered. However, Zapata’s lifeless body appeared days later, also on the farm and in an advanced state of decomposition, clearing up doubts about whether he was the criminal. So, who killed Manuel, his wife Juana, the tractor drivers Ramón and José, and Asunción, his wife?
It is a mystery that Mediaset will try to shed light on twice. On the one hand, with the true crime Los Galindos. The whole truth from Fénix Media and, on the other hand, with a six-episode miniseries titled El Marqués and which is currently in the filming phase in the province of Seville.
Both productions, presented at the South International Festival of Cádiz, have a common link: the actor Víctor Clavijo is the narrator of the documentary series and also gets into the shoes of Rafael Pertierra y Medina, Marquis of Bahía and consort of the owner of the farm. The fiction, created by Ignacio del Moral (Tell me how it happened) and Begoña Álvarez (Skam España), assumes the thesis of the book The crime of Los Galindos. The whole truth, written by Juan Mateo Fernández de Córdova, son of the marquis himself, which places him as a possible author of the massacre: it is believed that he could have killed Zapata so that he would not notify his wife and father-in-law of the millionaire embezzlement that had discovered.
‘The Marqués’ is structured around two timelines: the years 1977 and 1975. In December 1977, two years after the crimes on the Andalusian estate of Los Galindos, Onofre (José Pastor), a journalist who ends his internship in a current affairs magazine, he must return to his town, Paradas, where the event occurred. The director of the publication, Solís, (Jorge Bosch), commissions him to write an article about the current situation in the municipality. For its part, true crime focuses on the police investigation of the case, marked by negligence, irregularities and mysteries, and tries to reveal some of the enigmas of this crime that prescribed 27 years ago without being clarified.
Along with De la Fuente, the young performer José Pastor (who gave life to Miguel Bosé in his biopic), Paco Tous (Paco’s Men), Laura Baena (Vis a vis) and Adelfa Calvo (winner of the Goya) will share the billboard with Clavijo by The Author), among others. The Andalusian towns of Carmona, Alcalá de Guadaira, Mairena del Alcor, Seville and Huelva are the settings chosen to recreate the farmhouse and other key points in history, as well as some places in Ceuta, Madrid and Barcelona.
