The series consists of ten episodes and is based on real events.
A “thriller” of spies and action, which takes place in Portugal and in the middle of the Cold War. Glory, the first large 100% Portuguese production to reach NetflixIt has all the ingredients to become a series capable of engaging the audience.
“We thought it was a good first step for our fiction to have an international story for Netflix”, account in an interview with Efe Pedro Lopes, scriptwriter of “Glória” that has just been released on the platform.
The series consists of ten episodes and is based on real events, although the separation with fiction it was “very defined” as there is a “background historical reality”.
Recorded in the Ribatejo and Lisbon region “From facilities that still exist and within houses that were occupied by North American engineers and teams”, Glory it has a chronology that it considers very reliable, but with fictitious characters.
In the middle of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo where RARET is located, an American center that transmits Western propaganda for the Eastern bloc, João VidalAn engineer from a family linked to the Portuguese dictatorship but recruited by the KGB, he will take on espionage missions that can determine the world future.
A series for everyone
Despite being a historical series, it is intended for all audiences.
“Those who lived during that time of the Cold War will try to remember it, but for those who are younger, like me who was born after April 25 and the revolution, it is a good entertainment series”, explains Lopes.
“We wanted to bring a reality concentrated in the framework of the 60s and what was at stake, but it does not mean that there are no problems like today.”
Issues such as gender equality, the role of informational propaganda and against fake news or the manipulation of electoral results through public opinion are still valid today.
“All this is there, not trying to make a contemporary series, but looking for a theme that resonates with today’s society”, he claims.
Netflix, international opening
The way Even reaching the platform began four years ago, when Portuguese fiction and the idea of SPi, the production company in charge of Glória, became known.
“We were received with great enthusiasm and that is why we realized that here we had a history with great potential, not only for the national market, but also for the international one”, bill.
Lopes is convinced of the visibility that the series will bring to the Portuguese audiovisual sector, as it has done with those of other countries and that, in the end, “this is what has also been successful in some way on Netflix.”
“Bringing other languages or other cultures that are often peripheral to the center makes not only North American fiction travel the world, but also Portuguese or Spanish, which manage to reach other geographies and show in some way the talent we have.”
Series like The Money Heist (Money Heist), from Spain, or The Squid Game (Squid Game), from South Korea, have had a worldwide success on the platform, something that in the case of the Portuguese production, “The public will tell in time.”
Lopes, aware that much Portuguese fiction is produced to be consumed in the national market, sees this unique opportunity to give “greater visibility” to the country’s audiovisual sector: “We want to show that we have the capacity and critical mass to produce well.”
On the future, the scriptwriter of the first series Made in Portugal Netflix does not rule out an upcoming season: “There is still history to tell if necessary.” (I)
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