High Chilean fiction home Parox, producer of “Invisible Heroes,” has kick-started principal images on worldwide co-production “Los mil días de Allende” (“Allende, the Thousand Days”), a historic drama mini-series in regards to the final three years within the lifetime of Chilean President Salvador Allende.

Alfredo Castro – certainly one of Latin America’s most revered actors and a Pablo Larraín common, star of movies similar to “Karnawal” and “El Membership” – leads the mini-series solid as Allende; Benjamín Vicuña (“Besieged,” “Locked Up”) performs Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

The four-episode, 55-minute fiction drama shoot is happening totally in Chile, lensing from Might 15 for 2 months, below “Besieged” and “Inés of My Soul” director Nicolás Acuña.

Leonora González and Sergio Gándara, Parox co-founders, are respectively the mini-series’ showrunner and producer. 

A Chile-Spain-Argentina co-production, “Allende, the Thousand Days” groups Spain’s Mediterráneo Media Leisure and Argentine corporations Aleph, Mente Colectiva and HD Argentina.

Chilean public broadcaster TVN, Spanish nationwide group RTVE and Argentina’s Canal 9 are additionally backing the undertaking.

“The Spanish half brings to the desk expertise and financing; Argentina places expertise, companies and financing,” Gándara defined.

Written by Carla Stagno (“Sayen”), Cristián Jiménez (“Bonsai,” “Household Life”), Paco Mateo (“Inés of My Soul”) and Pablo Manzi, “Allende, the Thousand Days” tells the story of the final three years of the Chilean president and the expertise in authorities of his Unidad Standard celebration, narrated by Manuel Ruiz, a 25-year-old Spaniard who turns into an in depth adviser to the president.

A fictional character, Ruiz is impressed by Spanish lawyer and political scientist Joan Garcés and performed by Barcelona-born thesp Pablo Capuz (“Merlí. Sapere Aude”). 

Allende died through the Sept. 11, 1973 coup d’etat of Common Augusto Pinochet, whose troops shelled the Chilean authorities headquarters, in La Moneda Palace.

Within the sequence, Ruiz accompanies Allende in La Moneda. He’s prepared for something, however minutes earlier than the bombing, Allende tells him that he has to outlive to inform the world what he noticed in Chile.   

“Allende is principally recognized for his political choice to commit suicide in La Moneda whereas the federal government palace was bombed by the armed forces that needed to shield the Chilean structure,” showrunner Leonora González argued, calling his demise a “tragic and symbolic act that means that his title is in squares, streets, colleges, hospitals in lots of international locations world wide.”

“We need to go additional to indicate the president in his complexity, in his feats, difficulties and contradictions, in order that the viewers can journey with Allende and the characters who accompany him, get emotional and endure with them,” she famous.

The references for “Allende, the Thousand Days’” manufacturing come from sequence similar to “Borgen” and “The West Wing” and flicks similar to “Darkest Hour” and “Argentina, 1985.”

“Regardless of the tragic last act of Allende’s demise, we additionally need to present the sunshine, pleasure, and hope that lay behind the undertaking led by him,” González stated.

She added: “Lastly, [we want] to inform the story of a politician who, in a Chilly Battle context, thought it was potential to make a novel social and financial transformation undertaking a actuality, with out aligning himself with one of many two nice powers: a left wing undertaking, democratic, peaceable and with political and press freedoms.”

On the fiftieth anniversary of the coup d’etat, “the mini-series goals to be a programming occasion, which will probably be broadcast on the identical dates by TVN, RTVE and Canal 9, throughout September 2023,” Gándara stated.

“We’re evaluating a number of various gross sales brokers and platforms that will launch the sequence after its free-to-air launch,” he added.

Launched in 2001 by Gándara and Gónzález, Parox has develop into certainly one of Chile’s foremost TV corporations, having produced fiction sequence similar to TVN’s sci-fi thriller “Gen Mishima” and “Invisible Heroes,” a thriller-drama set through the 1973 navy coup, co-produced with Finnish public broadcaster YLE and broadcast by Chilevisión.

Additional Parox standout productions soak up TVN’s “El reemplazante” and “Los archivos del Cardenal,” plus native variations of each HBO’s “In Therapy” for 3TV and Juan José Campanella Argentine comedy “El hombre de tu vida” for Canal 13.