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The “Glória” series, a ‘thriller’ set during the Cold War, directed by Tiago Guedes, is Netflix’s first Portuguese original project, produced by SPi, by Grupo SP Televisão, and co-produced by RTP, the platform announced today. .
“Glória” has an original script by Pedro Lopes, one of the authors of the “Auga Seca” series and several telenovelas, and directed by Tiago Guedes, who directed “A Herdade”, a film that distinguished itself a year ago in the framework of the Venice Festival.
The actors Miguel Nunes, Carolina Amaral, Victoria Guerra, Afonso Pimentel, Adriano Luz and Gonçalo Waddington are among the protagonists, as well as Joana Ribeiro, Marcelo Urgeghe, Sandra Faleiro, Carloto Cotta, Maria João Pinho, Inês Castel-Branco, Rafael Morais and Leonor Silveira.
“Glória”, which takes place in the 1960s, during the Cold War, is being recorded in the Ribatejo region and in Lisbon, according to information released today by Netflix.
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The action is concentrated in the village of Glória do Ribatejo, where the US broadcasting center RARET is located, which broadcasts Western propaganda for the Eastern Bloc.
Engineer João Vidal, from families that support the Estado Novo dictatorship, but recruited by the KGB, Moscow’s secret police, “undertakes high-risk espionage missions that can change the course of Portuguese and world history.”
The town becomes an “unlikely stage of the Cold War,” where Washington and Moscow fight for control of Europe. João Vidal, after having contacted the reality of the colonial war, “will understand that, whichever side he is on, the world (…) is never black and white”.
The executive director of Spi, José Amaral, quoted in the Netflix statement, says that “Glória” is part of a path and a “strategic vision of international expansion” that the production company has been following.
“As production companies, this moment also represents the beginning of a new cycle for the Portuguese audiovisual market, since it places our country on the ‘roadmap’ of major international productions that Netflix has been promoting,” continues José Amaral.
The producer highlights “the privilege of being able to count on the participation of RTP”, “a great partner in this positioning”.
The program director of RTP1 and RTP Internacional, José Fragoso, also mentioned in the Netflix statement, assures, for his part, that “the start of filming the series ‘Glória’ represents the arrival of Portuguese television fiction to a new quality level. and demand ”.
“With an undeniable international profile, developed by an experienced and rigorous SP team,” the Tiago Guedes series “will be the first national fiction project to have Netflix’s exceptional international production and distribution capacity,” he says.
Fragoso highlights RTP’s role as a “decisive element” in investment and development “in regular series production” in Portugal, and considers this production as “a historic moment for Portuguese audiovisual production”.
The Netflix statement also mentions the Secretary of State for Film, Audiovisual and Media, Nuno Artur Silva, who welcomes the first Portuguese co-production with the platform and recalls the support provided by the Tourism, Film and Audiovisual Fund.
Nuno Artur says that he hopes this will be the first of “many other projects that will give visibility to the creativity of Portuguese screenwriters, directors and producers, and will give a new dynamism to the country’s cinema and audiovisuals.”
SPi was founded in 2007, within the scope of the SP Televisão group, dedicated to the development and production of international projects.
Netflix, the global streaming service, is present in more than 190 countries and has 193 million paid memberships, the platform’s statement concludes.
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