10/10/2023 - Miguel Herrán, María Pedraza and Hovik Keuchkerian head the cast of the five-episode thriller, based on real events, scripted by Patxi Amezcua and produced by Brutal Media

Actor Hovik Keuchkerian, actress María Pedraza and actor Miguel Herrán (© Manolo Pavón/Netflix)

Netflix has announced the upcoming filming –which will last two months– of its new project, the miniseries Asalto al Banco Central. A 5-episode action thriller that is based on real events and written by Patxi Amezcua (director of 25 Carats [+see also:
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The main cast includes Miguel Herrán (known for his work in series such as Money Heist and Elite, who has worked before with Calparsoro on the feature film Sky High [+see also:
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The story begins in Barcelona on 23 May 1981. Barely three months have passed since the attempted coup d'état in the Congress of Deputies, when eleven hooded men enter the headquarters of the Central Bank in Barcelona. What starts out as a spectacular robbery soon becomes a genuine challenge to Spain's recent democracy, as the robbers hold more than 200 hostages (workers and customers) in the bank and threaten to kill them if the government does not agree to release Colonel Antonio Tejero and three others responsible for 23F.

Asalto al Banco Central is a production for Netflix by Brutal Media, a company behind projects such as El club de los lectores criminales, a slasher by Carlos Alonso-Ojea that adapts the novel of the same name by Carlos García Miranda, starring Álvaro Mel, María Cerezuela and Daniel Grao, as well as having produced feature films such as Te quiero, imbécil [+see also:
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(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)