Arde Madrid (2018)

Directed by

Paco León

Genre

drama, comedy television series

Country

Spain

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A limited series about American actress Ava Gardner living in Spain during the Franco regime. It follows her interactions with the local people around her and the secret service agents assigned to watch her.

wryperiodlightly dramaticoffbeatnostalgicunderstatedbittersweetintimate

What happens

Arde Madrid is a Spanish period comedy-drama limited television series created by Paco León and Anna R. Costa, which premiered on November 8, 2018, on Movistar+. León also directed every episode of the series and stars in it, alongside Debi Mazar, Inma Cuesta and Anna Castillo. The series tells the story of the period which American actress Ava Gardner spent in Francoist Spain. On 14 November 2018, Movistar+ renewed the series for a second season, but on 3 May 2019, the creators announced their decision to not continue the series. The series premiered May 5, 2020 in the US and Canada on MHz Choice, a subsidiary of MHz Networks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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