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Los pazos de Ulloa (1985)

Los pazos de Ulloa poster
Genre
drama
Country
Spain
Length
1 season, 4 episodes
Rated
8
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 19th century rural Spain, a young priest arrives at the decaying estate of the Ulloa family. He becomes entangled in the power struggles and secrets of the household.

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What happens

Los pazos de Ulloa is a Spanish–Italian prime-time television series based on the 1886 novel of the same name and its 1887 sequel La madre naturaleza by Emilia Pardo Bazán. Produced by Midega Film and Cía. Iberoamericana de T.V. for Televisión Española (TVE) and Radiotelevisione italiana (RAI), it was directed by Gonzalo Suárez, with a screenplay by himself, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Carmen Rico Godoy. Its four episodes adapting the novels were broadcast on La Primera of Televisión Española in 1985. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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