The platform announced the official premiere date of its original series, co-produced with Vaca Films and distributed by Beta Film, which will also be released at a later date on HBO LatAm.
Movistar announced this Thursday the official premiere date for its original series, The Unit (La unidad), which will hit the platform next Friday, May 15.
Later, it will also premiere on HBO in Latin America, as announced by its distributor, Beta Film, during its online presentation this month.
The series is a 50-minute six-episode police thriller, based on the unknown work of the Spanish National Police unit that fights against terrorism, one of the most effective in the world.
The unit is directed by Dani de la Torre (The Shadow of the Law, with three Goya Awards 2019, and The Unknown, with two Goya Awards 2018) and written by Alberto Marini and Amèlia Mora.
For the first time, the script had the collaboration of real members of this National Police unit, in a work of documentation and investigation “that combines entertainment with a topical plot, and that offers an unknown perspective of police work through a complex anti-terrorist operation led by this Unit and covering different countries”.
The unit has been filmed in numerous Spanish locations such as Madrid, Catalonia, Melilla, Malaga or Galicia, and internationally, such as the French cities of Perpignan and Toulouse or the locations of Lagos and Makoko (both in Nigeria).
The fiction stars Nathalie Poza in the role of Carla Torres; the Argentine Michel Noher, as Marcos, Head of the Research Group and partner of Carla, with whom he is in the process of divorce; Marian Álvarez, who plays Miriam; Luis Zahera, who plays Sergio; Persian-born Spanish actress Fariba Sheikhan as Agent Najwa; Raúl Fernández de Pablo as Roberto, and Carlos Blanco as Ramón.
In addition, Fele Martínez, Alba Bersabé, Francesc Orella and Pepo Oliva are part of the main cast, as well as a varied international casting with Amina Leony, Moussa Echarif, Hamid Krim, Mourad Ouani, Mekki Kadiri, Omar Bentaleb, Bouzan Hadawi, Said El Mouden and Tarik Rmili.
SYNOPSIS
The arrest in Spain of the world’s most wanted terrorist leader makes the country the main terrorist target.
A countdown has started without the population knowing it and the members of the Special Unit against Jihadist Terrorism, led by Commissioner Carla Torres, face the secret mission of dismantling it against the clock, while trying to resolve the conflicts of personal lives that their trade has, in part, taken from them.
A fast-paced thriller based on the little-known reality of a group of flesh and blood people with apparently normal lives, whose faces are unknown because there are victories that must be invisible.
