Boutique co-producer and distributor About Premium Content (APC) has boarded Movistar+’s brand new high-end drama series “The Invisible Line”, taking global distribution rights outside Spain and Latin America.
Produced by Movistar+ in collaboration with Sentido Films and Corte y Confección de Películas, “The Invisible Line” (6x45’) is based on an original idea from Abel García Roure, written by Michel Gaztambide and Alejandro Hernández and directed by Mariano Barroso. The Spanish-language drama series will premiere on Movistar in 2020. It is APC’s second collaboration with Movistar+ following the global success of returning series “Gigantes”.
Emmanuelle Guilbart and Laurent Boissel, Joint-CEOs and Co-Founders at APC say: “Following our successful partnership with Movistar on ‘Gigantes’, we are thrilled to be working together again on this exciting new thriller ‘The Invisible Line’. There is a huge global appetite for Spanish drama and we look forward to taking this compelling and powerful story to broadcasters and audiences worldwide.”
THE BEGINNING OF ETA
“The Invisible Line” is an original series set in the 1960s in the Basque Country in Spain, starring Antonio de la Torre (“El Reino”, “Que Dios nos perdone”) in the role of Chief Inspector Melitón Manzanas. On June 7, 1968, the leader of ETA Txabi Etxebarrieta killed Officer José Antonio Pardines. A few hours later, Txabi was killed in a shooting by the Guardia Civil, becoming the first to kill and the first to be killed in the ETA movement. That day, Txabi crossed the invisible line that separates political engagement from armed action, and started a war that caused more than 800 deaths and lasted 50 years.
The series takes viewers back to 1963 at the very beginning of ETA and follows an idealistic young man who, little by little, got more and more involved into ETA until there is no turning back. It also tells the story of a country under the military Francoist dictatorship and the hunt of ETA terrorists by Chief Inspector Melitón Manzanas. It’s a story that leaves no one unscathed.
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