Set in 1580 Seville, Spaniard Alberto Rodríguez’s 2017 series “The Plague,” a milestone in Spanish TV history, depicted how Spain took a wrong turn.
Inspired by Javier Cercas’ extraordinary non-fiction book, starring Álvaro Morte (“Money Heist”) and acclaimed at September’s San Sebastián world premiere, Rodríguez’s “The Anatomy of a Moment” tells how over 1976-81, Spain finally got it right, and how its hard-won young democracy also hung by a thread.
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A “portrait of power and freedom, or at least how to maintain freedom for the future,” Rodríguez (“Prison 77”) tells Variety, the high-stakes thriller begins with the titular “moment”: a posse of some
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