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Helga y Flora (2020)

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Genre
drama television series, thriller television series
Country
Chile
Length
1 season, 10 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Set in Chilean Patagonia during the 1930s, this series follows women navigating a society where they have recently gained labor and political rights. The story unfolds across different narrative arcs that reflect the social tensions of the era.

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What happens

Helga y Flora (English: Helga and Flora) is a Chilean television drama series created and written by Omar Saavedra Santis, produced by Suricato for the Chilean channel Canal 13. It premiered on April 25, 2020. The series is set in the fields of Chilean Patagonia in the 1930s and runs through different narrative arcs in the social context of the time, in which women recently have labor and political rights. It stars Catalina Saavedra, Amalia Kassai, and Alejandro Sieveking, the secondary performance of Tiago Correa, Alessandra Guerzoni, Ernesto Meléndez, Daniela Lhorente, Hernán Contreras, Geraldine Neary, among other actors. The series was awarded CLP$485,426,640 from the funds of the Consejo Nacional de Televisión de Chile in 2016. The recordings began on March 9 and were paused in May 2018, due to the weather conditions in the Magallanes Region. They were then resumed in November to culminate in full on December 14, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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