The sets of the San Genaro neighborhood have recovered their activity this week. RTVE and Grupo Ganga have begun recording La heredad en vida, the first episode of the 23rd and final season of Cuéntame cómo pasó.
This latest installment of episodes will close a narrative cycle that began on La 1 22 years ago, in September 2001, with the chapter The Return of the Fugitive and which has portrayed the changes in Spanish society from 1968 to 2001. The series it has been a leader for almost two decades and is the most awarded fiction in the history of television in Spain.
In the coming weeks, the team, made up of nearly 80 professionals, will travel to different parts of the Community of Madrid, Guadalajara, Segovia and Toledo. The filming of the veteran fiction will continue during the summer months, and will end in September. In addition to the San Genaro neighborhood as the main setting, Sagrillas, the fictional town from which the Alcántara come, will be the second pillar of the season’s production.
The batch is made up of seven chapters, each one of them focused on one of the seven characters in the family: Antonio, Mercedes, Herminia, Inés, Toni, Carlos and María. A season in which there will be no respite and that will count seven years. The fiction situates the Alcántara at different times between 1994 and 2001, reflecting current political, social and cultural events of those years, such as the 1995 and 1996 elections, the arrival of the Internet and computers in Spanish homes, the explosion of mobile telephony, the birth of the first digital newspapers or the popularity of video consoles.
Imanol Arias, Ana Duato, María Galiana, Irene Visedo, Pablo Rivero, Carmen Climent, Paloma Bloyd and Ana Arias, William Miller and Carlos Serrano-Clark, Álvaro Díaz and Asier Valdestilla, as well as the voice of Carlos Hipólito, lead a cast of several dozen actors, including veterans Manolo Cal, Silvia Espigado, Carmen Balagué and Jorge Basanta, among others.
Ricardo Gómez returns in the final episode to say goodbye to his character, Carlos Alcántara. Elena Rivera accompanies him in this closing of the season.
Some of the capitular actors that are added this season are Carlos Santos, winemaker from the Antonio Alcántara wineries; Ana Turpin, theater director; Alberto Castrillo, journalist, and the girl Sofía Otero, Silver Bear at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, who will give life to Sol Alcántara, daughter of Toni and Déborah.
In addition to Jacobo Delgado, script coordinator, authors Sonia Sánchez, Manu Dios, Curro Royo, Joaquín Oristrell and Ignacio del Moral write. The management team is made up of Óscar Aibar-coordinator-, Agustín Crespi, Antonio Cano and Joaquín Oristrell.
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