An Unknown Enemy (2018)

Original title

Un Extraño Enemigo

Directed by

Gabriel Ripstein

Genre

drama, war & politics, crime

Country

Mexico

Length

2 seasons, 14 episodes

Rated

D

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican intelligence commander navigates secret government maneuvering in the late 1960s. The series shows the events leading to a student massacre and the official cover-up that followed.

tensebleakpoliticalseriousconspiratorialslow-burnoppressivesuspenseful

What happens

An Unknown Enemy (Spanish: Un Extraño Enemigo) is a 2018 television historical political thriller and drama series released on Amazon Prime. It examines the events leading to the 1968 student massacre and its cover-up, through the eyes of Commander Fernando Barrientos, head of a secret Intelligence agency. The series main character is loosely based on the real life Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios, director of the infamous DFS intelligence Agency, and depicts the political intrigues that triggered the period of censorship and repression of students at the end of the 1960s. Season 1, comprising eight episodes, aired on Amazon Prime exclusively. It premiered on October 2, 2018, commemorating 50 years of the depicted events. On November 9, 2018, it was announced that the series would be renewed for a second season which premiered on September 28, 2022. This season its losely based on Corpus Christi Massacre and subsequently guerrilla groups 3 years after the events of the first season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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