Underplayed Gems

Tres Caínes (2013)

Tres Caínes poster
Genre
telenovela
Country
Colombia
Length
1 season, 80 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 266 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More series like this

How it feels

This series tells the story of three brothers who became leaders of a paramilitary group in Colombia. It follows their rise and the violence they caused based on real events.

intensedramaticdarkcontroversialseriousgrittytensegrim

What happens

Los Tres Caínes (The 3 Cains) is a 2013 Spanish-language TV series produced by RTI Producciones for Colombia-based television network RCN TV and United States–based television network MundoFox. It is based on the story of the Colombian paramilitary leaders Carlos Castaño, Vicente Castaño and Fidel Castaño, played by Julián Román, Elkin Díaz and Gregorio Pernía, respectively, drawn from the research of their librettist, Gustavo Bolívar. It was released on March 4, 2013, and ended on June 18 of the same year. The series ran into controversy a week after its release. Several Colombian citizens (mostly victims of paramilitarism) protested the series on social networks, under the slogan #noen3caines, and denounced it as a purely commercial exploitation of violence. After this, some brands withdrew their advertising from the series. The series has been criticized by academics, journalists, human rights defenders, victims of paramilitarism and state crimes, and citizens outraged by its lack of rigor and its dialogues that re-victimize various social sectors that were victims of this illegal armed force created by the brothers Vicente, Fidel and Carlos Castaño Gil, around whom the production revolves, similar to a controversy over alleged support for drug trafficking in the series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord. At the same time, the Diocese of Quibdó also criticized the series for not highlighting the role of the Church during the Bojayá Massacre. At the same time, the series has been strongly criticized by Jesús Ignacio Roldán Pérez 'Monoleche', one of the most notorious ex-paramilitaries of the AUC, and at one time a high-ranking member. The series shows events that according to 'Monoleche' he seriously claims did not happen in real life, and that these scenes caused him problems with his relatives and especially with his minor children at that time. highlighting the scene of a young Monoleche (played by Sebastián Rendón) disturbed by the severed arm of a peasant, and swore to sue Gustavo Bolívar. Julián Román, who played Carlos Castaño, received death threats shortly before the premiere of the series and expressed his rejection of paramilitarism and its manual for making its victims disappear. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.