“We started with a story of a jihadist detained in Spain, then how jihadism went after our protagonists, and now we are going to the origin of the terror”, summarizes Dani de la Torre, co-creator and director of the series La Unidad before the premiere this Thursday in Movistar Plus of the third and, in principle, last season of this series starring anti-terrorist agents. "This is the best time to close the series," De la Torre is honest, although the other co-creator of the fiction and also a screenwriter, Alberto Marini, warns: "They also told us when we finished the second that there would not be a third."
La Unidad Kabul –which is the title of this new installment– was presented in March at the Malaga Film Festival after the success of the previous two among audiences and critics. The series follows the work of the anti-terrorist unit of the National Police information general station, which is now moving to Afghanistan, recreated in different settings in Pakistan, Almería and Madrid.
In this new mission, several agents are in Kabul a few days before the city is taken by the Taliban and Spain begins the evacuation of civilians and collaborators, at the beginning of August 2021. Their objective is to meet with an infiltrator who has information about a possible attack in Europe, but are surprised by clashes between mujahideen, Taliban and ISIS forces, and end up involved in a dangerous situation.
Waiting to see how this third season is received, Marini highlights the support that this production has always had, to the point that "we made the first season with the hope that there would not be a sequel, but there was, and with the second they told us to be ready, but leaving it in the hands of the public”.
"We didn't want to take advantage of the terror of others, but what happens in a distant and at the same time close country is important to tell, and this series allows us to do it as if it were a movie," explains the screenwriter, while De la Torre calculates that each chapter has an approximate cost of about two million euros.
The director of the series points out that he always sensed that they had a good product, but he assures that he was convinced of this "when we met the policemen, because when they really put you inside the kitchen of a restaurant you know how they make the dishes", so So that "when they put us in the general information station of the National Police we saw many things that were pure gold."
Nathalie Poza, Marian Álvarez, Michel Noher and Fariba Sheikhan once again head the cast of this new installment that consists of six episodes and has been filmed for ten weeks, with a team made up of 300 artists and technicians, about 130 actors and extras, and 40 specialists, including 28 riders for the action scenes.
