No matter what you were doing the day the song came out. Even if you were not born yet in 1968, because all Spaniards are age and whatever their generation know how to sing the ‘La, La, Massiel’s’. They may do so knowing their context first hand or do not know where it comes from. And there is the key to the success of this song, which went far beyond winning the Eurovision Festival.
After the nebula of this victory that knew Gloria and that It is also enjoyed through the series even knowing what the outcome was From the story, there was a regime like Franco’s, an anomaly in Europe in the late sixties, which longed to wash his image and hold while the showcase of the “Spain is different” Spain. And one of the roads that could be taken to achieve it was to win the Eurovision Festival.
The person in charge of assuming this great challenge was Esteban Guerra (Patrick created), The protagonist of the fantastic Movistar Plus+ series and a young RTVE executive who discovers that this order has arrived from a very time. He has no musical experience, but he is anxious to ascend, so he takes the reins of the project and convinces himself to join the adventure to the peculiar Artur Kaps (Alex Brendemühl), responsible behind the great television shows of the time.
Together they undertake the “Eurovision Operation”, a plan to find the ideal song and interpreter that project in Europe the image of a modern and open country, as the government wants. The rest is history, but it is worth seeing how it is told in the series created by Pepe Cira and Fran Araújo, the brains behind other projects such as ‘Rapa’ and ‘Iron’.
After stumbling the stars align
Like many of the most important movements of the second half of the twentieth century in Spain, This great milestone of our country was also forged between leather and offices armchairs. Specifically, in those of Radio Televisión Español, who were the ones who saw one of the little rays of light to which the Spanish society of that moment could aspire.
The series is aware of the background of the time it intends to portray and It does not give stitch without threadknowing how to find the perfect balance between humor, creative freedom and a historical fact. And all this without falling into the sweetness of a cartoon and making the story fit perfectly into three capsules easy to digest.
-It cost to find the song and the right voice to sing it, but after seeing this series, I think We couldn’t have won more trusting Massiel (Carolina Yuste). Not only because it ended up taking the victory, but it was also a profile capable of representing what Eurovision is in itself: a speaker in favor of freedom. And because he also did not want to lower his head and make it the image of a regime that continued to condemn any minimum glimpse of it.
After the stumbling block with Serrat, which Marcel Borràs plays, the archetypal and iconic gestures of Massiel arrived, who knew how to take advantage of the springboard and reach the top.
Much more than a song
And, like the story, he encaled giving us that victory, ‘The song’ also delights us by making this feat a story capable of ramming us. In it we do not find neon or confetti lights, but we see rigid characters, victims of a social and gray social and political context. But this does not prevent us from enjoying it, because It has the ingredients of other quality series which we already found in the Movistar Plus+catalog.
Among them are, of course, the actors that are part of the cast and that invite us to know or review one of the few happy moments that were lived at the historical level at that time. Patrick Criado, Carolina Yuste, àlex Brendemühl and Marcel Borràs raise the series and They find the perfect tone for the melody to be as catchy as possible.
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