In July 1975, months after Franco's death, a town in Seville, Paradas, was shaken by the brutal murder of five people, three men and two women, all workers at the Los Galindos farm, which was never solved, although Many hypotheses were used. With that crime as a seed, Telecinco will soon premiere the six-episode miniseries El marqués, which is inclined to offer a possible solution for some murders that, despite having expired, have not yet been forgotten in Paradas. This is how screenwriter Ignacio del Moral remembered it during the presentation of the series, who had direct contact with the story because his family had a summer house right there.
In fact, the series, produced by Mediaset in collaboration with Unicorn Content, has been filmed in natural settings in Seville, Huelva, Madrid, Barcelona and Ceuta instead of the original town because “in Paradas there was still resistance to the idea,” Del continued. Moral, who introduced some of his memories into the series, and even revealed that the protagonist's house, Onofre, is his family home.
The plot of The Marquis develops in two timelines. One in 1977 when the young journalist Onofre (José Pastor) returns to his hometown to write an article about the event and finds a traumatized and divided society, families in conflict and a path that will lead him to draw new conclusions and confront the other great protagonist of the series, the marquis, Don Rafael Pertierra y Medina (Víctor Clavijo), who runs the Los Galindos estate. And the other that goes back to 1975, to focus on the seven weeks that preceded the crime and weave, paying attention to various theories and testimonies, an intrigue around the question of how that could have happened.
The events occurred “on a key date in Spain,” which was Franco's death, Del Moral said, when “Spain pivots into the two 'Spains'. There was social unrest, while some characters saw how power was slipping out of their hands with the death of the dictator, others were betting on a new time. And there is also the reality of the countryside,” adds the screenwriter. “There is a lot of truth although it is all invented.”
The series, which includes all the hypotheses, supports the theory that the marquis could be the author of the massacre to prevent the estate workers from revealing that he was robbing his father-in-law to speculate in urban construction.
Pastor explains about Onofre that he is someone who “portrays the courage of youth, who wanted to change things; His desire to solve crimes is not just for journalistic interest, it is because he is his people and he needs it. He is innocent, he believes that things can be solved quickly.” For his part, Víctor Clavijo maintains that the marquis symbolizes “the worst of macho and caciquil Spain whose mask of arrogance is born from a tremendous inferiority complex.”
